Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Airway / Deconditioning

An exciting new opportunity has arisen at University Hospitals of Birmingham for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive and innovative SLT team at Brimingham Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital leading on the provision of Specialist Speech and Language Therapy input to patients with Inducible laryngeal obstruction and or chronic cough within our complex breathlessness multidisciplinary service.

It is an opportunity to work within a supportive and highly experienced MDT in a service that is expanding and developing in order to address a previously unmet need within the BSOL area. The post involves taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients with suspected or confirmed Inducible laryngeal obstruction to determine diagnosis and identify appropriate SLT treatment as clinically indicated. Patients within this service often have a highly complex presentation and may have concomitant factors such as breathing pattern disorder, EDAC or asthma. Speech therapy is an integral part of this service and alongside the MDT you will ensure that patients receive a comprehensive and holistic assessment and treatment plan.

You will have the opportunity to work alongside other highly specialist staff and have access to nasendoscopy with opportunities to further enhance and develop your existing specialist skills.

Main duties of the job

You should be able to work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner with a clear passion in assessing and managing complex breathlessness within an outpatient respiratory setting. Alongside this you will provide specialist level training to the wider MDT when required and may also be asked to attend the regional complex breathlessness network meetings networking with speech therapists working in similar roles across the country. You should be passionate about providing effective patient centred care, as well as being highly enthusiastic about service development of respiratory services

The complex breathlessness service is a component of a wider recover well service and therefore approximately once per month you may be asked to attend a long stay and deconditioning multidisciplinary clinic treating patients with upper airway issues requiring speech therapy. This in addition to being welcomed into a large and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system.

We are open to discuss flexible working arrangements as suited to the post.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.