Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
To provide a Speech and Language Therapy service to adults in the Community setting in West Hertfordshire who have:
acquired communication disorders, and/or
speech and/or
language disorders, and/or
eating, drinking and swallowing disorders
To work independently and as part of a team.
Main duties of the job
To determine and carry out appropriate assessments for clients and to evaluate the information gained to make appropriate clinical decisions based on specialist clinical knowledge and including a differential diagnosis.
To determine, structure and deliver appropriate specialist care plans for intervention including treatment, advice, review, discharge, information exchange and communication with client, team members and carers following assessment, with reference to best practice using a range of therapy approaches, evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
To determine where a client’s needs are best met by individual and/or group therapy, and to establish/provide/refer on to a group as appropriate.
To adapt specialist care plans to the changing needs of the client integrating the client’s goals, changing circumstances and any ongoing assessment information.
To assess needs, identify appropriate equipment (including high and low tech communication aids), coordinate trials/purchase of equipment, introduce augmentative communication equipment to the clients and carers and to monitor changing needs for appropriate clients.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree.
- Health Professions Council licence to practise.
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist post graduate short courses relevant to the adult caseload.
- Membership/attendance Special Interest Groups relevant to the post.
Desirable criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience relevant to an adult caseload.
- Able to demonstrate the application of in depth, new and ongoing learning and experience to clinical practice.
- Experience in the provision of training for others.
- Well-established knowledge of assessment tools relevant to an adult client group including:
- Dysphagia/Dysphasia/Dysarthria/ Dyspraxia/Dysphonia/Dysfluency/Dysgraphia/ Dyslexia/Dementia.
- Well-established knowledge of a range of relevant therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group (as above).
- Well-established knowledge of the management of people with progressive neurological conditions.
- Knowledge of the range and applications of communication aids.
- Knowledge of professional standards including record keeping.
- A good understanding of the roles of other professionals in acute, rehabilitation and community settings.
- A well-established knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to adults.
- A good understanding of the application of research and audit systems.
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance.
Desirable criteria
- Management of dysphagia in acute, rehabilitation, community, OP settings.
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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