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We are seeking an enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapy Assistant to join our friendly, supportive team at the highly specialist and well sought-after Blackheath Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit.
Located in trendy South East London, 10 minutes-walk away from the pretty cafes and boutiques of Greenwich, the unit has a 19-bed Level 1 Highly Specialist Cognitive-Behavioural ward and a Level 2 Neurorehabilitation ward with 18 beds. Both wards provide specialist treatment to patients with physical and cognitive impairments resulting from an acquired / traumatic brain injury.
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality care, and would like the opportunity to work as part of a highly skilled and experienced multidisciplinary team (neurology, neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, and social work), apply now!
Please note: This advert will close once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
What you'll be working:
This role is 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Main duties of the role:
- Assisting the Speech and Language Therapy team in providing evidence-based intervention to a range of complex neurological patients. You will be supported to deliver essential communication and swallowing therapy, contributing greatly to each patient's care and therapeutic outcomes
- Developing expert interpersonal skills to liaise with patients, their loved ones, and to work alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team
- Building on your own skills and competencies to be able to independently organise and run fun and evidence-based communication groups to help patients generalise the skills they have developed in 1:1 sessions
- Contributing to a fun and vibrant team, where workplace experience is fundamental
What you'll be doing:
- Take responsibility for a designated caseload under supervision of the SLT team
- Work closely with patients, carers/families, and other professionals to manage and set targets for care/management plans
- Keep people safe from any harm and protect their human rights
- Advocate for persons with communication difficulty, to ensure access to all levels of service and allow for informed decision making
- Co-ordinate the running of the groups programme under guidance of the SLT team
- Attend relevant training and development to maintain and develop skills and knowledge
- Be responsible for the ordering, maintenance, and auditing of equipment in the SLT department as necessary
What you'll have:
- Experience working in a multidisciplinary setting
- Ability to communicate complex information to others where there may be barriers to understanding
- Excellent problem-solving and self-reflective skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Successful candidates will be required to undergo an Enhanced DBS
We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.
What to look forward to:
- 25 days plus bank holidays
- Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
- Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
- Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
- A Nest Personal Pension account
- Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials like going to the dentist or opticians
- We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
- Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
- Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 by recommending someone you know
- and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group