Speech & Language Therapist - ENT (Voice, Head & Neck)
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Ganganagar (district) | India
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Job Summary
Are you a clinician with experience in the field of voice and ENT who is: - Motivated to advance your clinical skills
- Seeking opportunities to lead
- Ambitious for quality improvement
Sandwell & West Birmingham Speech & Language therapy service are seeking to recruit a band 7 Highly Specialist SLT for ENT services (voice and head & neck) into our compassionate and future focused team.
Don't yet have the level of skills and experience needed for a band 7 If you are passionate about a career in this field but do not currently meet all essential skills and knowledge required for the post, we are happy to look at supporting you to take this opportunity via a formal band 6 to 7 development position.
In order to specifically support the growth and development of a band 6 to 7 in head and neck cancer, we will be seeking to offer a fixed-term training secondment with our SLT colleagues at University Hospital Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This is a unique and superb opportunity to work part of your week within a renowned tertiary centre alongside highly specialist expert clinicians, acquiring the necessary skills and experience to then return to lead in this area for the patients and population of Sandwell and West Birmingham.
Main duties of the job We are looking for an aspirational, driven individual to re-establish, shape and grow outstanding local voice specialist outpatient services for the future for our diverse population.
Whilst leading outpatient voice services will be the mainstay of this post, candidates will also be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity as we collaborate with our regional tertiary clinical centres to evolve delivery of high quality and seamless head and neck cancer care. This post will take the lead over the future of those services.
Candidates will need to bring enthusiasm and use highly developed interpersonal skills to quickly establish and foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders to lead in shaping a future ENT SLT therapy service that meets our population demands and future clinical pathway models.
Candidates will be encouraged and supported to develop service ideas and will receive well-structured professional mentorship and line management supervision to achieve this.
About Us Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We Have Three Newly Emerging Strategic Objectives - Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Job Description Job Responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the main responsibilities of this post.
If this sounds like an opportunity that interests you, I would strongly encourage candidates to call and discuss the post further in confidence.
Our SLT Team We are welcoming and aspirational with a strong commitment to deliver clinical excellence and to be an employer of choice for SLT careers.
We work collaboratively and flexibly over multiple hospital sites and within community settings. This will continue even as we transition our inpatient services to Midlands Metropolitan University Hospital. Our out-patient services will continue to be delivered at both City and Sandwell Hospital sites and these will form the base for the position.
We have established videofluoroscopy and FEES services as part of our portfolio.
We are passionate about training, education and inspiring others and are committed to supporting student placement expansion to develop the SLT workforce of the future.
We live our core trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. We take a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where promotion of independence and early intervention is encouraged using What matters to you principles.
We are proud to say that as a team we value looking after the health and well-being of each other as highly as we do our patients and families. We are very serious about investing in ourselves as professionals in order that we can add the highest clinical impact to the patients that we serve.
Person Specification Qualitifcation Essential - Qualification as SLT
- HCPC registration
Desirable - Membership of relevant RCSLT Clinical Excellence Network relevant to the ENT speciality
- RCSLT competence in fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES)and/or endoscopic evaluation of the larynx
Experience Essential - Demonstration of significant post graduate clinical experience relevant to this area of clinical specialism
- Demonstration of clinical experience and competence within specialism sufficient to be able to undertake highly developed assessment and management of patients with diverse and complex swallowing and voice presentations.
- Demonstration of clinical experience working within a joint ENT/SLT diagnostic clinic setting
Desirable - Competence with surgical voice restoration
- Staff development and management of sickness/ performance/ informal disciplinary matters
- Policy/protocol development/evaluation
- Demonstration of clinical competence managing patients requiring tracheostomy
Knowledge Essential - Able to demonstrate understanding and application of current clinical evidence base in specialist area of voice & head and neck, in order to deliver highly specialised programmes of care and lead on service improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge of Speech and Language Therapy within specified clinical field acquired through post-graduate study/development & practical clinical experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
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UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Address City Hospital
Dudley Road,
Birmingham
B187QH
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