Community Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a well-established community Speech and Language Therapy Team. We are looking for a dynamic, passionate and caring Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated friendly team, providing assessment and treatment for service users with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties. The Speech and Language Therapy team work closely as part of the wider community MDT, which includes dietitians, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

The successful applicant will be an experienced Speech and Language Therapist, who has completed dysphagia assessment and management competencies and is able to manage a dysphagia caseload independently.

You will be working with adult service users with swallowing and/or communication difficulties resulting from acquired or long-term conditions, including neurological disorders. Your clinical role will be to determine diagnosis and to develop and deliver individualised treatment programs and/or provide advice. You will hold responsibility for your own specialist caseload, working with service users in their own homes or other community settings.

Main Responsibilities:
Manage own specialist caseload
Work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date electronic records.
Carry out specialist assessment and treatment of patients in the community.
Determine a clinical diagnosis. Develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualized treatment programs.
Liaison and referral to other agencies to ensure service users receive an appropriate pathway of care. Communicate effectively with the team to ensure continuity of care. Provide specialist advice to patient, colleagues and the MDT.
Take part in the education and training of Speech and Language Therapists. Also contribute to the education of qualified and non-qualified healthcare, social services staff and medical staff.
Collaborate with the Clinical Leads for Speech and Language Therapy to contribute to evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical area.
Support the Clinical Leads in the day to day running of services.
Support and advise the wider MDT on the delivery of the service

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

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