Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company within the private and public sector has a locum role for a Band 6/7 Adult Acute/Community Speech and Language Therapist to work 37.5 hours per week, based in Guernsey.
The pay rate for this locum Adult Acute/Community Speech and Language Therapist job is £34 - £36 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-month contract.
Duties:
- Manage a clinical caseload and provide a high quality service to adults with speech, language, communication and/or swallowing difficulties in acute, rehabilitation, continuing care and community settings within the Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Provide specialist speech and language input for patients with highly complex speech, language and communication difficulties and/or dysphagia resulting from neurological and medical conditions
- Autonomously hold responsibility of your own caseload taking into account referral criteria and prioritisation
- Manage a specialist caseload, including those with complex needs
- Assessment, diagnosis, and therapy, planning therapy programs and discharging patients
- Provide dysphagia advice and support, second opinions and cover for the Speech and Language Therapist in Learning Disability
- Work alongside specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners in the management of patients with complex needs, both neurological and medical
- Supervise the therapy assistant and Speech and Language Therapy students if required
- Provide formal and informal clinical education and teaching to staff (AHP, Nursing, Support Workers), GPs and the third sector
- Maintain registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Monitor, oversee and allocate incoming referrals using professional judgement and extensive highly specialist clinical knowledge and experience thereby supporting prioritisation and effective caseload management
- Provide highly specialist advice, teaching and training to patients and/or members of the MDT within the scope of your own practice, including airway and tracheostomy management
- Demonstrate clinical effectiveness through evidence based practice and the use of outcome measures
- Adapt practice to meet individual patient/client circumstances including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences
- Contribute to the development of the service through the promotion, adaptation and development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practice
- Take responsibility for the safe use of equipment
- Communicate relevant medical/social information, assessment details, advice and recommendations across agencies following local and professional guidelines for sharing information and consent
- Gather activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly within HSC guidelines
- Keep abreast of evidence based practice
- Ensure good working knowledge of national and local standards, and monitor quality through participating in clinical audit work as required
- Have due regard for your own personal safety and that of patients/clients/carers, in particular to have regard to moving and handling regulations, restraining policies and ensure the safe positioning of self and others
- Work with infection control and health and safety guidelines in order to deal with unpleasant working conditions on a regular basis (e.g. sputum, faeces, vomit, urine, blood, halitosis and potentially infectious conditions)
Requirements of the Adult Acute/Community Speech and Language Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent within Speech and Language Therapist
- HCPC registered as a Therapist
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Recent post qualifying experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist
- Be able to carry out videofluroscopic examinations of swallow*, analyse and report findings to the referrer regarding implications for management and to design specialised therapeutic programmes of care, seeking support from colleague where needed
- Lee Silverman Voice Treatment training
- Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups (SIG)
- Evidence of successful completion of relevant specialist short courses
Contact:
This Adult Acute/Community Speech and Language Therapist job is advertised by Ross Welton; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best-placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
