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Main area Speech and Language Therapy Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent: Participation in weekend rota required Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Participation in weekend rota required) Job ref 197-AO8501
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview Don't miss this exciting opportunity to join our adult acute Speech & Language Therapy team at University Hospital Lewisham! We are proud to be part of Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust who serve a diverse & multicultural local community.
Our SLT teams are friendly & inclusive, we work closely across the MDT & value audit & quality improvement to better refine & develop our services. We have strong links with other acute & community Speech & Language Therapy services within the Trust & our local areas.
We are looking for a therapist who has previously held an independent dysphagia caseload and demonstrates experience ofworking with adults with acquired disorders, with established competence in both dysphagia & communication disorder management.
The successful candidate will share our commitment to excellence & ensure high standards of evidence-based therapy practice. Within our lovely team, you will benefit from diverse opportunities to engage in regular supervision, in-house & external CPD, action learning sessions, leadership development, peer supervision and advanced skill development such as FEES, VFS and tracheostomy management. You will be supported & encouraged to complete & participate in audit, research & quality improvement projects as relevant to your role.
Contact us for an informal chat in confidence, or arrange a visit and allow us to welcome you to the department.
Helen Sampson, Cross-site Lead - Adult Speech and Language Therapy,
Main duties of the job To provide a speech and language therapy service to adults with communication and swallowing problems in the acute setting at University Hospital Lewisham.
To work within the acute therapy teams and to be fully involved in multi-disciplinary working.
To provide training and supervision for junior staff, students, volunteers as requested by the Acute Leads.
Working for our organisation Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical
- To use specialist skills to assess, differentially diagnose and manage complex patients with acquired swallowing and communication disorders from the acute wards at University Hospital Lewisham.
- To manage and prioritise patient caseload independently, taking into account a complex range of clinical, practical and contextual factors, such as service availability and the need to carry out additional duties
- To be part of weekend rota managing and prioritising acute and stroke referrals/caseload independently
- To further develop skills in the assessment, differential diagnosis and management of patients with tracheostomy who have swallowing and communication impairments and to provide input to these patients for tracheostomy weaning with support from senior colleagues.
- To demonstrate developing clinical skills for interpretative assessment techniques and interventions in the care of patients with tracheostomies.
- To develop and demonstrate specialist clinical skills for interpretative assessment techniques and interventions involving instrumental procedures e.g. videofluoroscopy and FEES.
- To write therapy programmes to be carried out by the Speech and Language Therapy Assistant.
- To demonstrate specialist knowledge in the area of acute communication and swallowing difficulties, underpinned by current evidenced based practice.
- To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a specialist therapist working in the respective fields. To maintain HCPC and RCSLT registration and ensure it is up to date.
- To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in your clinical area.
- To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
- To provide advice on speech and language therapy to non-specialists and other specialists/professionals within clinical field.
- To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies.
Organisational
- To be aware of, adhere to and implement service and team plans and policies.
- To use your specialist knowledge to inform service/policy developments as appropriate
- To attend meetings at the request of the service manager.
- To participate in and develop innovations in areas of risk management, quality standards setting and clinical effectiveness within Speech and Language Therapy and the Trust in general.
- To develop care protocols/packages informed by the evidence of your clinical specialism in liaison with your supervisor and/or service manager.
- To develop Clinical Governance/audit projects within the speech and language therapy services.
- To develop local clinical guidelines informed by the evidence of your clinical specialism.
- To demonstrate the ability to reflect on your practice with peers and mentors and identify your own strengths and development needs
- To participate in Personal Development Reviews ensuring that the objectives set reflect the Service and Trust plans, including specific objectives relating to the clinical specialty.
- To keep accurate and complete records of the amount of time spent on clinical activities in order to monitor effectiveness and facilitate service delivery.
- To assist with the identification of training needs within the team.
Professional
- To be accountable for your own professional action and recognise your professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
- To attend and contribute to departmental CPD sessions participating in peer review.
- To demonstrate a working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance and their application to professional practice.
- To gather activity data accurately and regularly . click apply for full job details
