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Location
Luton, Bedfordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
CLINICAL To assess, develop and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment of dysphagia and communication difficulties and evaluate outcomes. To take a significant role in the Videofluoroscopy clinics at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. To be involved in management of patients with tracheostomy tubes in situ under the guidance of senior team members, working alongside a multidisciplinary team. To use specialist skills to formulate a diagnosis. To use specialist skills to make appropriate discharge decisions in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team and to organise safe discharges from hospital To maintain specialist knowledge of current practice and literature, ensuring decisions are based on the best available evidence. To adapt clinical practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences. To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to clients. To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions. To contribute to clinical teams both uni-disciplinary and multidisciplinary by discussing own and others input around clients needs ensuring a well-coordinated care plan. To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers, families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist. To demonstrate skills in motivating clients with severe communication needs and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process and enabling them to contribute to the decision- making process regarding their care plans. To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties or health factors affecting their ability to participate in their therapy care. To demonstrate good negotiation skills with carers, clients and other professionals around complex case management. To employ counselling skills with clients/ carers with highly complex needs and maintain sensitivity when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and implications of the same. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures. To manage and prioritise complex and specialist caseload and workload with some support and use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/ decision making. To support junior colleagues in clinical decision making when required. To provide specialist advice/ second opinions to speech and language therapists and other professionals in area of expertise. See attached Band 5 and Band 6 JD and PS for further details of the initial role and that you will move into on completion of competencies.
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£28.41k - £42.62k per annum
