Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (ENT)
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Do you want to develop your skills in Head and Neck Cancer/ENT-related voice, upper airway and swallowing disorders? We have a rare permanent full-time position available. Based at the Freeman hospital, you will be integral to a busy but highly supportive team of SLTs as well as being a valued member of multi-disciplinary teams. Training will be provided in required specialist areas and you will have access to frequent FEES/VF clinics and joint respiratory/ENT specialist clinics due to our close working relationships with these specialties. We are one of the busiest H&N units in the country, highly innovative and active in research. Our voice/upper airways service is also nationally renowned. As a department we support and host national conferences and training programmes, and are committed to teaching, audit, quality improvement and research. We have close links with both Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.
Job description
To assess, diagnose, treat, and manage own highly specialist caseload of clients with routine and complex voice and upper airway disorders as well as swallowing difficulties arising as a result of a range of ENT and respiratory conditions, including head and neck cancer (HNC). To provide highly specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To support joint clinics with ENT and respiratory colleagues. To provide day to day coordination, support and clinical supervision of speech and language therapists, assistants, and students. To develop and deliver highly specialist training to other colleagues including SLT colleagues, multidisciplinary team colleagues and other professionals To pursue and acquire ongoing highly specialist knowledge and expertise in voice and ENT conditions affecting communication and swallowing as well as in conditions of the upper airway including inducible laryngeal obstruction and chronic cough. To implement all Trust and Departmental policies and procedures in own working practice and comment on policies being developed. To provide input to the teaching, research, audit and service development functions of the department.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
- Relevant post graduate courses/conferences
Desirable
- Master's degree
- Membership of relevant RCSLT CEN
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Significant experience of working with adults with a broad range of disorders including swallowing problems in an acute/rehabilitation setting.
- Experience of interpretation of nasendoscopy/FEES.
- Significant experience in video fluoroscopy clinics
- Experience of working with a specialist voice/upper airway and/or H&N caseload.
- Experience of working with complex conditions with an appropriate level of autonomy
- Knowledge/experience/training in a range of voice, upper airway and swallowing treatment and assessment techniques
- Awareness of the appropriate use of counselling skills/psychological therapies
Desirable
- Experience of working in a specialist multidisciplinary clinic
- Experience working with ILO and chronic cough
- Advanced Post grad training and experience o nasendoscopy o analysis/interpretation of laryngeal images o videofluoroscopy assessment o FEES assessment o working with patients with tracheostomy o Surgical voice restoration
- Highly specialist in-depth knowledge and understanding of the management of voice, upper airway, and swallowing disorders
- Experience of engagement in research activity
- Post grad training and clinical experience in a range of voice and swallowing treatment and assessment techniques Proven application of current theories and practices in the specialist field of voice and upper airway disorder.
- Post-graduate training in talking therapies
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Essential
- Dysphagia skills at intermediate level
Desirable
- Project evaluation skills
- Excellent teaching and presentation skills
- Established skills in conducting and interpreting laryngeal examination, videofluoroscopy and FEES assessments at intermediate level
- Excellent clinical supervision skills
About the employer
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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