Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment company within the private and public sector has a locum role for a Band 7 Oncology Speech and Language Therapist to work full-time based in Waringstown.
The pay rate for this locum Oncology Speech and Language Therapist job is £25.52 per hour (Assignment rate) and is an ongoing contract.
Duties:
- Responsible for the planning and management of own specialist clinical caseload
- Provide Specialist Speech and Language Therapy input to the Specialist multidisciplinary palliative care team assessment and management of the client group
- Lead, develop and maintain effective speech and language therapy communication and professional relationships within the community specialist palliative care team and hospice and other health and social care professionals including hospitals, GP’s, District Nursing and Nursing Homes
- Provide specialist advice and education to speech and language colleagues, and a range of other Health and social care professionals, working across the Trust working with adults with specialist palliative care needs
- Take a lead role in decisions re patient management, facilitating and planning appropriate onward referral, liaising with core community staff and specialist community teams
- Represent speech and language therapy, the palliative care service and /or individual patients at multidisciplinary meetings, locally and regionally to ensure the delivery of a coordinated MD service
- Contribute to the relevant statutory processes at all stages for the clinical specialty
- Be actively involved in the collection of statistics for evaluation and monitoring of services and onward reporting to the Heads of Service
- Maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records in line with the RCSLT/Trust standards
- Ensure other speech and language therapy staff, colleagues and students also comply with these standards
- Be responsible for organising and planning own and others caseloads including domiciliary visits as necessary to meet service and patient priorities
- Adjusting plans as situations change/arise to make best use of available resources under your control
- Initiate and maintain effective liaison with carers, other professionals and agencies relevant to client group
- Care for and maintain clinical equipment and test materials
- Adhere to national and local standards and guidelines relating to professional practice
- Maintain and further develop specialist clinical skills, knowledge and expertise relevant to palliative care and related policy and legislation
- Access clinical advice/ support from Senior Clinical specialist for highly complex cases, and participate in regular clinical and case supervision
Requirements of the Oncology Speech and Language Therapist:
- Degree or equivalent within Speech and Language Therapist
- HCPC registered as a Therapist
- Recent post qualifying experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist
Benefits of working for Sanctuary Personnel:
- Free DBS and compliance service
- Daily payroll
- Access to exclusive roles that aren't available with other agencies
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive speech and language therapy knowledge
- Refer a Friend bonus - get £250 for each candidate you refer who we successfully place
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance support
- In house payroll system
- Revalidation
- Industry leading shift booking system
- Nationwide coverage including the Channel islands
Contact:
This Oncology Speech and Language Therapist job is advertised by Ruben Mota; 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.
