Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist

3. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: To provide a highly specialist comprehensive specialist assessment (including differential diagnosis), advice and treatment and information regarding clients with communication and/or swallowing disorders, ensuring full client involvement, underpinned by a broad range of specialist knowledge and experience. To use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements for case management. To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures, thereby ensuring that practice is continually updated. To adapt practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences. To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries. To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct to ensure quality of care. To
demonstrate the ability to reflect on different aspects of patients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. To provide advice to non-specialists, specialists and other professionals within clinical field. MDT Responsibilities: To be a core member of the MDT attending weekly meeting, and contributing to their goal setting To have a delegated caseload of patients, contributing to their MDT goal setting and planning To undertake key worker duties To collect accurate statistical information (using the iCARE patient administration system to record statistics) and record accurate information on the therapy dependency sheets that are used toupload on the UK-ROC database Service Development Responsibilities: Utilise rehabilitation and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural populationin a range of disease specific therapeutic techniques, principles and guidelines. Use of outcome measures as required and further
develop these in partnership with othersto ensure a high quality service is delivered. Ensure that quality standards relating to Speech Therapy are continually monitoredand improved. To actively identify areas of service innovation and development for the Speech Therapy service and work with the professional lead in developing this. To ensure good working knowledge of national and local standards, and monitor qualitythrough participating Education & Research Responsibilities: Provide training and education programmes as required in the form of tutorials and presentations. Take an active role in developing in-service training programmes and the supervision and training of students as appropriate To be leading on and producing audit in own area To be leading on and producing research in own area Keep abreast of evidence based and best practice. Demonstrate ability to critically evaluate current research and apply it to practice. Ensure good working knowledge of
national and local standards, and monitor quality through participating in clinical audit, research projects and evaluation work as required. Personal: Maintain continuing professional and personal development by participating in regular in service training, supervision, reflective practice and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriate to disseminate learning. To maintain a portfolio of CPD that can be demonstrated to the Medical Director or external agencies To keep abreast of evidence based and best practice and ensure an environment where all staff are encouraged to do this. Maintain competency and proficiency in manually handling people and therapeutic manual handling.