About the role
Salary: £33677.00 to £40996.00
We have a fantastic opportunity for a band 5 SLT to join our clinically passionate, friendly inpatient speech and language therapy team at the Royal Surrey Hospital.
o Using your skilled clinical reasoning, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients seeking advice from senior colleagues when necessary.o Ensuring patients, carers and families are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible (including family meetings and keyworker role on the Stroke unit).o Ensuring patients give informed consent prior to treatment, working within the legal framework with patients who lack the capacity to give valid consent. o Formulating and delivering individual therapy programmes based on current evidence-based practice (EBP) and evaluation of outcomes.o Lead on planning and running the weekly communication group on the Stroke unit.o Ensuring a well-co-ordinated care plan/patient pathway through discussion of therapy findings and planned goals.o Communicating complex condition-related information from assessment to patients, carers, families and members of Multi-Disciplinary team/other professions.o Writing discharge reports reflecting specialist knowledge. o Providing teaching and training (formal and informal) to Student Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT).o Generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.o Participation in Quality Improvement and research opportunities.
To provide a specialist service to in-patients including assessment, diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and evaluation of outcomes. To provide teaching and training (formal and informal) to Student Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) including Basic Swallow Screen Testing (BSST) for nurses with support from the BSST lead SLT. To manage own caseload independently.