Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AHP228-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Glanrhyd Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This is the opportunity for a motivated and innovative Speech and Language Therapist who is ready to advance in their career. We are looking for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our multi-award winning Community Integrated Team, delivering community services to adult patients in the Bridgend Locality.
The role benefits from flexible working time and remote working within an integrated team which provides a range of interventions to promote independence by avoiding admission to hospital. It also aims to improve the ability of people who live with long term conditions to care for themselves and live independently in the community for longer.
The post holder will be forward thinking and able to demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge when working with a variety of adults with acquired communication and swallowing disorders, resulting from stroke, dementia, and progressive neurological conditions diagnoses.
We are a very friendly, supportive and progressive team who welcome passion, patient-centred initiatives and evidence based practice.
This is a 30 hours a week post. You are warmly welcome to telephone for further information.
Main duties of the job
You will autonomously undertake highly specialist assessments and interventions with individuals with complex communication difficulties and rehabilitation. You will provide a service in clients’ own homes, care homes and the local community. You will also work with the wider multidisciplinary team colleagues in local care networks.
The community Speech and Language Therapists will liaise on videofluoroscopic evaluations at the local hospital with support from the acute team, an excellent opportunity to develop and maintain these dysphagia skills.
You will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development activities particularly on digital technologies and will be supported to develop leadership skills. You will be responsible for the supervision of Band 4 SLT Technicians, and have a key role in service development of the SLT team and the wider MDT.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree.
- Registered member of Health and Care Professions Council
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy.
- Highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence based practice.
- Post-graduate qualification in dysphagia or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement methodology/ clinical audit training.
Personal Qualities & Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Reflective and Flexible
- Motivated and Organised.
- Innovative and Solution Focussed.
- Able to work hours flexibly to meet demands of the service
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post-registration experience in a paediatric setting.
- In depth knowledge and experience of using highly specialist interventions for children with SLCN.
- Experience of writing/contributing to policy documents.
- Experience of providing second opinions
- Experience of line managing staff
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in using telehealth
Aptitude and Abilities Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written skills to share complex and sensitive information.
- Able to work unsupervised and independently as a MDT member negotiating case management.
- Clinical assessment skills in own clinical area.
- Ability to manage frequent exposure to distressing information and unpleasant working conditions.
- Able to demonstrate situations where effective leadership and management skills have been used.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheiladen Aquino
- Job title
- SLT Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 815888
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