Band 7 Clinical Lead - Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist inDudley inDudley PUBLISHED WED 22 JAN 2025

Job Overview We are seeking an experienced clinician to work with the Speech & Language Therapy lead and wider MDT to review, plan and co-ordinate SLT provision within the urgent care footprint This is a new and exciting role to support patient flow through the organisation and thesuccessful candidate will be responsible for leading change in the service and becominganintegral member of the urgent care teams. This will include opportunities to develop education and training to the wider MDT to ensure referrals into Speech and Language Therapy are both timely and appropriate. You will lead the service for the acute in-patient team, including elements of staff management, service development and being an integral part of the clinical team, as well as support with the co-ordination of SLT provision for the acute team on a day to day basis. We are aiming to focuson early assessment and intervention for communication and swallowing needs in the area, as well as follow patients who are admitted through to other acute wards, supporting staff as part of the wider caseload. Introduction to the Therapy Department at The Dudley Group on Vimeo

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Job Overview Continued We have well established teams in Acute, Stroke, Critical Care and Head and Neck Cancer as well as significant specialist clinical knowledge and clinics for Video fluoroscopy and FEES, with opportunities to develop in this area if desired. We also supervise and educate student SLTs to a graduate standard, working with the Universities to ensure standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.

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