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Key duties involve managing a delegated caseload, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, adapting interventions to meet individual patient needs, and participating in instrumental assessments. The role also includes contributing to case conferences, supervising intervention programs, and ensuring clear communication with all stakeholders involved in patient care.
The team fosters professional development through strong links with the University of East Anglia and emphasizes high-quality, compassionate care aligned with the hospital’s values of People-focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence. Regular team meetings and supervision provide support for professional growth.
We have an exciting opportunity to offer a post for band 5 Speech and Language Therapist keen to develop their skills with adult patients with acquired communication and swallowing impairments within the Neurosciences Speech and Language Therapy Team. The post is based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, a large state of the art teaching hospital. Full dysphagia training will be provided.
You will join a supportive and motivated team who are enthusiastic and innovative and are committed to evidence based practice. Regular team meetings, support and supervision ensure a high quality of service is provided by you and the team as a whole. The team also has strong links with the University of East Anglia, including the School of Health Sciences and Medical School. These links offer exciting opportunities for professional and personal development.
As post holder, your duties will include:
- To provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment for adults with communication and swallowing disorders.
- To provide education, training and advice to patients, carers, SLT colleagues, other health care professionals, students, and voluntary organisations.
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure inter-professional patient care for patients with communication and swallowing disorders
Working for us:
- You will be joining a friendly and motivated team committed to providing high quality patient care
- Regular team meetings and supervision will ensure that you are well supported
- An excellent opportunity to develop communication and dysphagia skills in a supported environment
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUHs PRIDE values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.
- To hold and manage a delegated caseload and to be legally accountable for all clinical decisions and professional actions.
- To provide assessment, differential diagnosis and appropriate and clearly planned Speech and Language Therapy intervention and discharge planning for patients with a wide range of disorders referred to the Service, in line RCSLT Clinical Guidelines, and standards set by, Team Leaders and SLT Service Manager.
- To adapt assessment and intervention techniques to the needs of individual patients on an ongoing basis including the provision of augmentative and alternative communication systems as appropriate.
- To identify need for second opinions, referring to senior colleagues as appropriate.
- To assist/observe instrumental assessments, as patient need dictates (e.g. participation in videofluoroscopy (VFS), Fibreoptic Endoscopoic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES), videolaryngoendoscopy and voice clinic), conducted by senior SLTs. To be aware of Health and Safety issues in relation to potential exposure to radiation and bodily fluids.
- To contribute to assessment and information gathering of a patients mental capacity in relation to their ability to consent with support from senior colleagues. To also enable patients to maximise their independence in decision making and their ability to communicate their wishes.
- To work closely with all appropriate agencies and MDT colleagues to ensure comprehensive management of the patients SLT needs, providing written and verbal reports as appropriate to ensure that all parties involved fully understand the nature of the patients communication/swallowing disorders.
- To participate in case conferences and undertake multi-disciplinary working, to enhance patients functional abilities.
- To devise, monitor, supervise and evaluate the implementation of communication and swallowing intervention programmes carried out by others, e.g. SLT Assistants, other health professionals, volunteers and carers.
- To provide information that may be complex to patients, carers and families in a manner that enables and ensures their understanding (patients will frequently have communication and or cognitive difficulties as well as emotional difficulty accepting the information being provided), observing data protection guidelines.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
We have an exciting opportunity to offer a post for band 5 Speech and Language Therapist keen to develop their skills with adult patients with acquired communication and swallowing impairments within the Neurosciences Speech and Language Therapy Team. The post is based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, a large state of the art teaching hospital. Full dysphagia training will be provided.
You will join a supportive and motivated team who are enthusiastic and innovative and are committed to evidence based practice. Regular team meetings, support and supervision ensure a high quality of service is provided by you and the team as a whole. The team also has strong links with the University of East Anglia, including the School of Health Sciences and Medical School. These links offer exciting opportunities for professional and personal development.
As post holder, your duties will include:
- To provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, differential diagnosis, and treatment for adults with communication and swallowing disorders.
- To provide education, training and advice to patients, carers, SLT colleagues, other health care professionals, students, and voluntary organisations.
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure inter-professional patient care for patients with communication and swallowing disorders
Working for us:
- You will be joining a friendly and motivated team committed to providing high quality patient care
- Regular team meetings and supervision will ensure that you are well supported
- An excellent opportunity to develop communication and dysphagia skills in a supported environment
About us
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUHs PRIDE values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.
- To hold and manage a delegated caseload and to be legally accountable for all clinical decisions and professional actions.
- To provide assessment, differential diagnosis and appropriate and clearly planned Speech and Language Therapy intervention and discharge planning for patients with a wide range of disorders referred to the Service, in line RCSLT Clinical Guidelines, and standards set by, Team Leaders and SLT Service Manager.
- To adapt assessment and intervention techniques to the needs of individual patients on an ongoing basis including the provision of augmentative and alternative communication systems as appropriate.
- To identify need for second opinions, referring to senior colleagues as appropriate.
- To assist/observe instrumental assessments, as patient need dictates (e.g. participation in videofluoroscopy (VFS), Fibreoptic Endoscopoic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES), videolaryngoendoscopy and voice clinic), conducted by senior SLTs. To be aware of Health and Safety issues in relation to potential exposure to radiation and bodily fluids.
- To contribute to assessment and information gathering of a patients mental capacity in relation to their ability to consent with support from senior colleagues. To also enable patients to maximise their independence in decision making and their ability to communicate their wishes.
- To work closely with all appropriate agencies and MDT colleagues to ensure comprehensive management of the patients SLT needs, providing written and verbal reports as appropriate to ensure that all parties involved fully understand the nature of the patients communication/swallowing disorders.
- To participate in case conferences and undertake multi-disciplinary working, to enhance patients functional abilities.
- To devise, monitor, supervise and evaluate the implementation of communication and swallowing intervention programmes carried out by others, e.g. SLT Assistants, other health professionals, volunteers and carers.
- To provide information that may be complex to patients, carers and families in a manner that enables and ensures their understanding (patients will frequently have communication and or cognitive difficulties as well as emotional difficulty accepting the information being provided), observing data protection guidelines.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
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