Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Respiratory Specialist

Job summary

An exciting new opportunity has arisen at University Hospital's of Birmingham for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive and innovative SLT team at Brimingham Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital leading on the provision of Specialist Speech and Language Therapy input to patients with swallowing and communication difficulties primarily within our acute respiratory medicine service.

It is an opportunity to work within a supportive and highly experienced service that is the regional centre for excellence in the delivery of Respiratory services in the West Midlands. The post involves taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients on acute respiratory units including ITU step down who have highly complex needs, determine diagnosis and identify appropriate SLT treatment as clinically indicated.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside other highly specialist staff and have access to regular videofluoroscopy & FEES clinics with opportunities to further enhance and develop your existing specialist skills. This in addition to being welcomed into a large and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The post involves taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients on acute respiratory units including ITU step down who have highly complex needs, determine diagnosis and identify appropriate SLT treatment as clinically indicated.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside other highly specialist staff and have access to regular videofluoroscopy & FEES clinics with opportunities to further enhance and develop your existing specialist skills. Excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system.

You should be able to work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner with a clear passion in assessing and managing complex dysphagia and communication difficulties within an acute respiratory setting. Alongside this you will provide direct line management to the team and assist in delivery of Specialist level training in suitable clinical areas. Evidence of strong organisational, communication and leadership skills are essential to compliment your advanced speech and language therapy knowledge and skills. You should be passionate about providing effective patient centred care, as well as being highly enthusiastic about service development of respiratory services

This post includes participation in the weekend on call service for inpatients across Solihull, Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals

We are open to discuss flexible working arrangements as suited to the post.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent

* Health Professions Council -- Licence to Practice

* Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

* Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area

Experience

Essential

* Relevant postgraduate experience in key specialist area's relevant to the post

* Experience of management of adults with complex swallowing / communication needs

* Experience of involvement in VF / FEES clinic

* Experience of SLT students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels

* Experience of leading audit

* Experience of training staff groups at all levels

* Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multidisciplinary teams and across agencies

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.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Asfa Bashir 

asfa.bashir@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214240432