Highly Specialised Speech and Language Therapist

Overview

CLINICAL: To assess, develop and implement highly specialist speech and language therapy treatment and intervention; ensuring that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible. To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness, using evidence-based practice, adapting practice to meet individual service users circumstances; including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences, and by evaluating outcomes. To provide highly specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users with communication difficulties and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties. To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users with communication difficulties and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties. To contribute to observations and advise/offer a clinical impression/professional opinion on how communication difficulties may inform/explain/feed into behaviour that challenges. To assess improvement in quality of life following SLT input using appropriate and informative outcome measures. To ensure the service user is at the centre of goal setting and treatment formulation, in consultation with significant others as appropriate for each individual. To apply a range of alternative individualised communication strategies with service users experiencing significant communication difficulties. To provide specific SLT, learning disability/Autism training for staff / care providers and other outside agencies. To implement and monitor a Positive Behaviour Support ethos across LDISS and role model best practice and disseminate knowledge to wider team/care providers. To maintain accurate written records and statistics to ensure that service user details and details of care given are recorded in notes and on the trust database(s) in line with trust policy. To liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions. To participate in Multi-Agency meetings to offer advice and opinions to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users. To provide and receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers or other professionals and agencies, on a daily basis. The post holder will assume a responsibility of a shared case load.

PROFESSIONAL

To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries through interpretation of clinical/professional policies. To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct. To attend Trust internal meetings and have full participation in organising and presenting at Continuing Professional Development days. To develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals which reflect individual needs. To employ excellent communication skills. There is a requirement to use your own vehicle to travel throughout Gloucestershire to carry out appointments. To research, develop and share current best practice to optimise the service users ability to engage with their environment in line with principles of social inclusion and/or recovery. Act as supervisory mentor for students (within framework of profession). To design and complete audits and monitor compliance alongside agreed governance structures. In partnership with team manager organise and chair Multidisciplinary team meetings and Service user orientated meetings. To collate, analyse, and present service user data to the weekly Multidisciplinary team meetings. To implement risk assessments and management plans on a daily basis. The Trust is required to work in line with the Government UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas. When joining us, as well as