Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Complex Breathlessness
Requirements
Requires a degree in Speech and Language Therapy, HCPC registration, and RCSLT membership. Candidates must have postgraduate experience in relevant clinical areas and proficiency in objective upper airway and swallowing assessments.
Job Description
An exciting new opportunity has arisen at University Hospitals Birmingham for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive and innovative SLT team at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital leading on provision of Specialist Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) input to patients with Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) and or chronic cough within our complex breathlessness multidisciplinary service.
It is an opportunity to work within a supportive and highly experienced MDT in a service that is expanding and developing to address previous unmet need within the area. The post involves taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients with suspected or confirmed ILO to determine diagnosis and identify appropriate SLT treatment as clinically indicated. Patients within this service have highly complex presentations with concomitant factors such as breathing pattern disorder, EDAC or asthma. SLT is an integral part of this service. Alongside the MDT you will ensure patients receive a comprehensive and holistic assessment and treatment plan.
This post would ideally suit an individual wishing to expand and apply existing skills in ENT, dysphagia and laryngoscopy. You will have opportunity to work alongside other highly specialist staff including support from RCSLT advisor in respiratory.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
You will have access to nasendoscopy with training opportunities to further enhance and develop your specialist skills. This in addition to being welcomed into a large and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities, robust supervision and appraisal system.
Main Duties And Tasks
You should be able to work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner with a clear passion in assessing and managing complex breathlessness within an outpatient respiratory setting. Alongside this you will provide specialist level training to the wider MDT when required and may also be asked to attend the regional complex breathlessness network meetings. You should be passionate about providing effective patient centred care, as well as being highly enthusiastic about service development of respiratory services
We are open to discuss flexible working arrangements, development opportunities and support as suited to the post.
We'd love to hear from you for an informal chat or visit to the department. For any further information, please contact: 0121 424 0432
Asfa Bashir -- Clinical Team Lead for Speech and Language Therapy
Nicola Pargeter -- Principal Speech and Language Therapist (ENT/Respiratory) and RCSLT Professional Advisor in Respiratory
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job Description
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
- Registered with Health Care Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Postgraduate degree relevant to clinical area
- Leadership training
- Attendance at Clinical Educators Course
Essential
- Post graduate experience in relevant clinical areas working with patients with a variety of acute and chronic conditions.
- Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within this speciality.
- Demonstrates a specialist knowledge in speech and language therapy and specialist area, across the range of procedures and working practices with the appropriate theoretical and practical experience
- Well-established knowledge of assessment tools and a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to clinical area.
- Experience of involvement in objective upper airway and swallowing assessments (e.g. FEES, VFS, CLP/CLE)
- Experience of training and supervision of SLT students
- Experience of training staff groups at all levels
- Experience of leading audit / quality initiatives on a regular basis
- Attendance at post graduate courses relevant to the specialist area and speech and language therapy
- CPD Portfolio sharing evidence of attendance at mandatory training and evidence of in-service training
- Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multi disciplinary teams and across agencies.
- Experience of staff management
- Awareness of or participation in research relevant to clinical specialism
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Asfa Bashir
asfa.bashir@uhb.nhs.uk
01214240432
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9017057-3
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
Job Description
JD PS - Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist.pdf – 374KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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