Speech and Language Therapist inWickford inWickford PUBLISHED
MON 9 DEC 2024
The service supports families in various settings, including homes, schools, and community clinics, within the Mid and South Essex area, and emphasises a community-based approach. Strong connections with local and tertiary teams facilitate comprehensive care and the management of complex needs. Applications for this role should be authentic and reflect the applicant's own input to ensure a fair assessment process.
The NELFT Children's Feeding and Dietetic service includes the feeding team. The team includes a range of different professions - Dietitian, Occupational Therapist , Speech and Language Therapist and Specialist Children's Nursing along with both team assistant and administrator support.
Due to staff relocation, the feeding team is seeking to recruit a part time, experienced dysphagia speech therapist to join the team and our other Speech and Language Therapist, to support children (0-19) with physical feeding difficulties.
There are opportunities for remote/ flexible working within NELFTs commitment to staff wellbeing and agile working. The all the team members are co-located in the same office which helps support successful collaborative team working.
Whilst the service hope is is to recruit a therapist experienced in managing both over and under one's. We recognise that many experienced therapists may not have completed their under 1 competencies. Support and training can be offered to help develop under 1 skills for the right applicant.
The feeding team is community based (Wickford, Essex) and supports children living in Basildon, Brentwood and Thurrock within the larger Mid and South Essex ICS. The feeding team has strong links to both the local acute, surrounding community and tertiary teams.
We offer families support at home, in education settings or in community clinics (face to face / virtually) and target our resources to meet the needs of the individual.
About us
Assessment:
- Assessment of swallowing function for solids and liquids
- Identify swallowing impairment and potential impact
- Assessment of oral skills whilst eating and drinking
- Assessment of parent child interaction and child response to feeding
- Supporting and recommending onward referrals for instrumental assessment and / or Services (i.e ENT or Tertiary SLT for VFSS)
Intervention:
- Manage eating risk by texture modification
- Manage drinking risk by fluid consistency modification
- Strategies to develop safe eating and drinking skills
- Management of Risk Feeding.
- Interpretation of Video fluoroscopy reports.
Certificates of Sponsorship
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Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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