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Job Title: Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
Location: Glasgow
Salary: £46,224 - £53,789 per annum
Hours: Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. 35 hours per week
Benefits:
- 38 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays (pro-rata)
- Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Excellent training and support
- Group life assurance
- Company Pension
- Eye voucher scheme
- Long service and staff awards
- Free parking
- Nationwide employee staff discounts incl. eating out and shopping
- Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
About Our Client:
Our client is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Their assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. They treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.
Main Tasks & Responsibilities:
- To apply the neurobehavioural approach to brain injury, demonstrating knowledge of current research findings, and best practice in the field.
- To manage and prioritise a caseload of People We Support with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
- To use evidence-based practice, service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate intervention.
- To undertake comprehensive assessments, considering environment, context and future plans, of People We Support in order to formulate appropriate o rehabilitation goals o care plans o communication and dysphagia therapy programmes o referrals
- To overcome barriers in communication in order to actively engage People We Support in assessment, rehabilitation and discharge planning to gain valid informed consent. Where necessary, work within a legal framework with People We Support who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
About You:
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
- Registered with the HCPC.
- Achieved Dysphagia Competencies.
- A wide range of experience in hospital or residential settings.
- Specialist knowledge of SaLT models and interventions in ABI e.g. social communication, cognitive communication, communication partner training.
- Knowledge and experience of speech and language therapy outcome measures.
- Minimum 4 years qualified experience encompassing complex case management.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience working with adults with neurological conditions or 4+ years post registration experience in an alternative clinical setting.
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