Job Overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 therapist who has experience of working with voice and upper airway disorders to join our team! This is to cover a member of the team who has received a research grant. Although this is a fixed term position of 18 hours for 30 months we hope to be able to extend this in due course if desired by the post holder. We would also be willing to hear from experienced band 6 applications interested in a developmental post.
If you are a highly motivated individual who shares our determination to deliver top class patient care, then we would love to hear from you! We value our staff highly and you will be supported and encouraged in your role through CPD activity and clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
The role involves planning and providing therapy to an adult and paediatric upper airway/voice caseloads as well as supporting consultant run joint voice and intervention clinics. We hold in-person voice therapy clinics across our patch and this currently includes: Wexham Park Hospital (Slough), King Edward Hospital (Windsor), and Farnham Hospital (Farnham). There may be opportunities for clinics on other sites including Maidenhead (Berkshire) or Fleet (Surrey). There also may be opportunity for virtual clinics during the week. See job description and person specification for the full description of the role.
You will be based within a very friendly and supportive team of outpatient speech and language therapists as well as having connection with the inpatient team who work at Wexham Park Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital sites.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Degree in SLT
- HCPC registration
- Clear application with relevant detail included
- Extensive specialist clinical experience with complex case management in upper airway and voice
- Evidence of maintaining clinical competence and keeping up to date with clinical developments.
- Knowledge of National policies and procedures relevant to specialist area.
- Able to build effective working relationships, network and assert views, sometime in challenging situations.
- Experience of working in an MDT clinic with ENT/respiratory consultants
Desirable criteria
- RCSLT member
- Experience of scoping
- Active involvement in specialist clinical support networks
- Experience of providing SLT leadership at joint clinics
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Extensive evidence of maintaining and developing clinical skills and theoretical knowledge in specialist field through further study/short courses etc.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant further studies to Masters level
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills – both informally and formally via presentations/training.
- Standard keyboard and IT skills
- Significant experience of designing, implementing and evaluating training packages to others.
- Significant experience of student clinical supervision.
- Evidence of coaching/developing reflective clinical practice in less experienced staff.
Desirable criteria
- Good working knowledge of software such as Excel and PowerPoint.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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