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Assistant Practitioner: Adult Speech and Language Therapy

Employer
Bromley Healthcare CIC
Location
Beckenham, London (Greater)
Salary
£26,447 - £28,780 per annum pro rata inc HCAS
Closing date
5 Jun 2022

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Job Details

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role we will be asking for evidence of business insurance. 

 

Job overview

 

We are looking for an assistant practitioner to work in this exciting and newly created post within the Bromley Adult Speech and Language Therapy Department. This is a fixed term post with the potential to be extended and we welcome applicants who are considering part-time and flexible working. 

We are a supportive and friendly team who work with adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing across Bromley Borough. We see patients in their homes, care homes and in our clinics to provide an excellent service for swallowing, communication, fluency and voice disorders. We work with patients who have progressive conditions such as Dementia, Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Neurone Disease, as well as Stroke and other neurological conditions. 

 

Main duties of the job

 

This role involves carrying out therapy programmes devised by qualified Speech and Language Therapists, including therapy groups. You will be working closely with patients, families and carers.

 

Other duties will include supporting the Speech and Language Therapists with making communication books/charts, assisting patients with using alternative communication technology and voice banking, running training sessions and completing administrative tasks to support the team.

 

You will be supported to develop communication competencies and basic dysphagia (swallowing) competencies and as an organisation we provide many training and development opportunities. 

 

Working for our organisation

 

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

 

Salary is dependent on NHS experience and current banding/pay point.

 

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low-interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

  • To deliver clinical and therapeutic care in the patient’s own home, care home or outpatient environment.
  • To carry out specifically delegated tasks independently according to protocols or under the direction of qualified therapists within the Speech and Language Therapy Team. 
  • Once suitably trained, to carry out assessments and therapy with patients from own caseload, reporting back to and seeking support from qualified therapist(s) as appropriate.
  • To adapt or progress basic/ predefined treatment programmes as required and feeding back to qualified therapist(s) as appropriate. 

 

Clinical Governance and Service Development Issues
 

  • To assist with the demonstration of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
  • To maintain strict confidentiality in relation to clients
  • To receive initial complaints sensitively and ensure they are responded to by the supervising therapist
  • To share information with others, in the interests of the patient observing data protection, Caldicott and information governing guidelines.
  • To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained – including equipment loaned to patients. To be responsible for checking appropriate supplies of equipment and reordering as necessary. 
  • To gather and submit data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly to other agencies as required.
  • To maintain up to date records of own annual leave and other absences.
  • When required to support the administration team with processing of referrals, booking appointments, sending and receiving patient-related correspondence.
  • To take minutes for meeting as required following appropriate training and support
  • To be responsible for all administrative and clerical tasks commensurate with the role. 

Company

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and part of the NHS family.

But we are a little different; we like to think that we stand out from typical NHS organisations as Bromley Healthcare CIC is actually a co-owned social enterprise, co-owned by its employees. This means that our staff remain on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (providing you are eligible), if not we can offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.

What difference does this make?

Because our Nurses, therapists and support staff co-own Bromley Healthcare CIC and have a real say in how our services are run, this has created a greater sense of ownership, responsibility & motivation among our staff which in turn creates better quality for our patients & families.

If you are keen to work for a dynamic, forward thinking but different type of NHS employer then Bromley Healthcare could be for you!

From health visiting to district nursing, school nurses to specialist nurses, our nursing services help new parents to care for new born children and older people to continue living at home through care and support. We also have a wide range of therapy services for adults and children, including speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy whilst our specialist services focus on preventing diseases and supporting those living with specific conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or diabetes.

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