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Appointments
Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists
2 White Hart Yard, London SE1 1NX
telephone: 020 7378 1200
email:
bulletin@rcslt.org
website:
www.rcslt.org
Disclaimer:
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magazine of the Royal College of Speech
and Language Therapists.The views
expressed in the bulletin supplement are
not necessarily the views of the College.
Publication does not imply endorsement.
Publication of advertisements
in the bulletin supplement is not an
endorsement of the advertiser or of
the products and services advertised.
www.rcslt.org
New guideline aims to improve
Parkinson's disease care
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and National
Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions launched a new Parkinson's
disease guideline on 28 June
Parkinson's Disease: National clinical guideline for
diagnosis and management in primary and
secondary care is based on a thorough search for
best evidence and reflects the major role of nonpharmacological aspects of care in this disabling
chronic condition.
In particular, the guideline recommends that
healthcare professionals be aware, throughout the
course of the disease, of the potential benefits of
referral for specialist treatment, such as speech and
language, physiotherapy or occupational therapy.
Julia Johnson, RCSLT adviser and member of the
Guideline Development Group, welcomed the new
guideline.
“This is a very important document for SLTs
working with an adult caseload including
progressive neurological disorders,” Julia said.
“Our intervention is highlighted in the key
interventions for people with Parkinson's disease
and as a key research area. The main
recommendations for us are that speech and
language therapy should be available for people
with Parkinson's disease.
“The guideline says particular consideration
should be given to:
Improvement of vocal loudness and pitch
range, including speech therapy programmes
such as Lee Silverman Voice Treatment.
Teaching strategies to optimise speech
intelligibility.
Ensuring an effective means of communication
is maintained throughout the course of the
disease, including the use of assistive
technologies.
Review and management to support safety and
efficiency of swallowing and to minimise the
risk of aspiration.
“This is a very thorough guideline, which is fully
supportive of the valuable role played by SLTs and
other allied health professionals in the
management of this disease along with the
importance of continuity of care.”
Visit:
www.nice.org.uk/page.aspx?o=cg035fullguideline
The new Parkinson's disease guideline
recommendations include:
People with suspected Parkinson's disease should be
referred quickly and untreated to a specialist with expertise
in the differential diagnosis of the condition.
The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease should be reviewed
regularly and reconsidered if atypical clinical features
develop.
Physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and
language therapy should be made available to people with
Parkinson's disease.
People with Parkinson's disease should have access to
specialist nursing care, which may be provided by a
Parkinson's disease nurse specialist.
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Q u i c k Lo o k D ate s
Do you have deaf clients?
Cued Speech gives complete
access to spoken language for
deaf babies, children and
adults. The Cued Speech
Association UK offers tuition
and free information. Find
out more. Visit:
www.cuedspeech.co.uk,
email: info@cuedspeech.co.uk
or tel: 01803 832784.
22 September
Downs Ed training
Speech and language
development for children with
Down syndrome. Presented by
Prof Sue Buckley OBE,
including the latest research
and therapy approaches. Venue:
Gujerati Centre, Preston, Lancs.
Cost: £85. Contact Sally Butler,
tel: 01772 401455, email:
sally.butler@prestonpct.nhs.uk
11-12 October
Communication and feeding
difficulties in children with
cleft and other complex
craniofacial conditions
A multidisciplinary course,
highlighting recent clinical
advances. Led by specialists
from ICH/Great Ormond
Street. Visit:
www.ichevents.co.uk, email:
courses@ich.ucl.ac.uk or tel:
020 7813 8394
16 October
Paediatric dysphagia course
Four days of paediatric
dysphagia training
Birmingham. This is one of a
series of dysphagia courses
offered by Quest Training.
Email: jfrost@ukgateway.net,
visit: www.quest-training.com
or tel: 0121 6282813 for more
information
27 October (repeated 17 Nov)
Reflective practice: creating
effective involvement
through supervision
Discover how to establish a
successful supervision group
that contributes to CPD and
supports personal
development within your
professional framework.
Contact Diane Gibson and
Fay Young, tel: 01264 396 319
or visit:
www.dfsupervision.co.uk
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13-14 November
Elklan total training package
for 11-16s
Enables SLTs to provide
accredited training to staff
working in secondary school
settings. RCSLT London.
Therapist £395; teacher £295;
Elklan tutor and co-tutor £200.
Tel: 01208 841450, email:
henrietta@elklan.co.uk, visit:
www.elklan.co.uk
16-17 November
Elklan total training package
for under-fives
Enables SLTs to provide
accredited training to staff
working in under-fives settings.
Teacher-therapist teams
welcome. RCSLT London.
Therapists £395; £295 teachers.
Tel: 01208 841450, email:
henrietta@elklan.co.uk, visit:
www.elklan.co.uk
1-3 November 2006 and 7-8
March 2007
Five-day facial oral tract
therapy course
Comprehensive MDT course
providing theory and
supervised practical work in
assessment and treatment of
swallowing and
communication disabilities in
adults and children with
neurological impairment. Royal
Hospital for Neuro-disability,
London. Contact Sarah
Haynes, tel: 0208 780 4500
x5230, email:
shaynes@rhn.org.uk
7-8 February 2007
Working with complex
acquired neuro-disability
Two-day course on assessment
and management of patients
with profound neurological
disabilities. Topics include
assessment and management of
patients in VS/MCS/emerging
and LIS. Presenters: SLT/
medical/dental and
physiotherapy Royal Hospital
for Neuro-disability, London.
Contact: Sarah
Haynes/Philippa Williams, tel:
0208 780 4500 x5230, email:
shaynes@rhn.org.uk and
pwilliams@rhn.org.uk
3 November
Trophic electrical stimulation
Oro-facial rehab in adult neuro
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featuring Diana Farragher.
Theoretical and practical
applications of TES for the
treatment of acquired
dysphagia and dysarthria.
Regional Rehab Unit,
Northwick Park Hospital. Cost
£140 includes handbook. Email:
anita.jandrasec@nwlh.nhs.uk or
tel: 0208 869 2808
Book your date email:
rcsltads@mcmslondon.co.uk
10-11 November
Dyspraxia Foundation 'Genes
into Jeans - Growing up with
dyspraxia'
Two-day conference for
professionals. West Midlands.
Featuring health/educational
programmes and choice of
workshops. For further details
contact: The Dyspraxia
Foundation, tel: 01462 455016,
email: admin@dyspraxia
foundation.org.uk or visit:
www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
Connect Training
8 September
Meeting the challenges of severe aphasia
Gain encouragement and inspiration to work creatively
and positively with this client group. Obtain an insight
into the everyday life and experience of people with
aphasia. Explore a practical framework for goal setting.
12 September
Develop your communication skills and make a difference
For non-SLT colleagues, assistants and newly-qualified
SLTs. Gain practical skills and techniques for improving
interactions, involvement and really getting to know the
person behind the aphasia.
19 September
The good goal-setting guide
Learn how to make choices and goals in stroke care more
patient-centred, by gaining new techniques for listening
and delivering what patients really want to achieve. Great
for teams.
27 September
Including people with aphasia in stroke research
For all stroke researchers. Learn techniques for making
project information, documentation and consent forms
accessible for people with aphasia. Increase confidence in
interviewing both face-to-face and over the phone. Make
your research truly inclusive.
5 October (follow up 12 December)
New ways of managing stroke disability:
dare to be different
Who's in control of therapy - you or your client? Learn
how to develop equal partnerships. Break down the
barriers during stroke recovery. Transform your service
and how you work.
11 October
Making information accessible
Accessible, relevant information is vital in supporting the
recovery journey. This course gives you the practical skills
to make your information clear, flexible and appropriate.
Focuses on stroke care but relevant to all clients.
For all of the above contact Maria McDonnell, Connect,
16-18 Marshalsea Road, London, tel: 020 7367 0866,
email: mariamcdonnell@ukconnect.org, visit:
www.ukconnect.org
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VSO
N ew s
Footballers' Wives star has
lesson in African therapy
Voluntary Services Overseas
(VSO) SLT Francesca Braschi had
a brush with celebrity in June
when she met Footballers' Wives
star Zoe Lucker in Zambia.
Thirty years after her parents
volunteered with VSO, Zoe
visited Zambia for the first time
with the international
development charity to see the
work of VSO volunteers.
She met Francesca, who is
working Bauleni Community
School, just outside Lusaka, and
was able to see her in action and
meet some of the children from
the school.
Francesca, originally from
London, is the only SLT in
Zambia. Her placement enables
her to train teachers at Bauleni
Community school, and pupils at
a local teacher training college, to
carry out communications
strategies for individual pupils
and introduce the therapy into
mainstream education.
VSO currently has a strong
demand for SLTs and is recruiting
new volunteers for placements,
like Francesca's, across the
developing world.
Zoe's parents volunteered with
VSO in the early 1970s, working
as home economics and
mechanical skills teachers. Taking
the opportunity to visit Zambia
allowed her to see first hand how
much VSO has changed over the
years.
Get involved in practicebased commissioning
The Department of Health is keen to involve allied health
professionals (AHPs) in new local improvement teams to support
the roll out of practice-based commissioning (PBC)
You could play a major role in developing new commissioning
processes, and redesigning scheduled and unscheduled care
services, to facilitate the roll-out of PBC.
A PBC support programme, run by the Improvement
Foundation (IF), formerly the National Primary Care
Development Team, is encouraging local clinicians to take part in
the process.
The programme comprises a parallel learning process, enabling
any NHS organisation to take part in webcasts and learning
exchanges; a preparatory period to ensure PCTs and practices have
their data and finance structure and functions in place; an
assessment point to help determine PCTs' and practices' readiness
to progress to PBC; and a collaborative process for engaging local
clinicians as a way of delivering improved services. A local
improvement team will support each participating PCT or
practice.
The first wave started in January, and 11 regional IF centres
have recruited for the second wave, which started in June. The
third wave starts in September, visit: www.improve.nhs.uk for
more information.
The Department of Health's Health Professions Advisor, Karen
Middleton, is interested to hear examples of AHPs' involvement in
PBC locally:
Have you been involved?
What difference has it made?
Have you tried to get involved but been unsuccessful?
What were the barriers?
Please email: karen.middleton@dh.gsi.gov.uk
www.rcslt.org
Francesca Braschi (left) with Zoe Lucker
Head of Media Relations at
VSO, Neera Dhingra says, “Zoe's
trip illustrates how VSO has
changed since her parents
volunteered with us in the 1970s.
Back then most of our
placements were around
classroom teaching, mechanical
skills and agriculture.
“Today you're much more
likely to find a VSO volunteer
training teachers or working with
the government to improve the
quality of education and health
services."
For more information about
volunteering with VSO, visit:
www.vso.org.uk
Call for language and
literacy papers
I CAN is calling for
submissions for
presentations or posters
for its conference on
Linking Language and
Literacy on 29
November 2006 at the
Business Design Centre,
London.
The event will
The conference will consider the
consider the interface
interface between language and literacy
between language and
literacy development and difficulties, and is in response to recent
interest and discussion around the teaching of early reading,
focusing on the central role of speech, language and
communication.
Aimed at all practitioners working with children's language and
literacy, the day will concentrate on early years and primary
education, but may also be relevant to practitioners working with
older students with additional language and literacy needs.
I CAN welcomes submissions that cover:
The crucial role speech and language play in literacy
development
Intervention projects and programmes that support the
development of language as a foundation to literacy teaching
Interventions for children with communication disability and
literacy difficulties
Submissions should be made by 11 Aug 2006 to the I CAN website,
visit: www.ican.org.uk
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Nutrition Issues for
Patients with Dysphagia
Tuesday, 24th October
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For SLTs and Dietitians who have a basic knowledge of
swallowing and nutritional problems and wish to gain a more in
depth knowledge. Speakers include Deirdre Cotter and Lucy
Wright. Venue: Charing Cross Hospital, London. Cost: £100.
Further information: contact Manjit Kanvar on 020 8383 3076 or
mkanvar@hhnt.nhs.uk Closing date for application:
11th September. Places are limited to facilitate workshops.
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Appointments
Victoria Education Centre,
12 Lindsay Road, Branksome Park, Poole, Dorset BH13 6AS
Required:
Grade:
Hours:
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Up to Band 7 (AFC) depending on experience/skills
Full/Part time, term time only also available.
The Victoria Education Centre caters for pupils aged 3-19 with physical
and learning disabilities.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, innovative therapist to join the
friendly and supportive team in our lively and developing department.
You will have a special interest in AAC and dysphagia and will be an
important member of the multi-disciplinary team, developing total
communication, providing training for staff and managing your own
caseload. You will receive a comprehensive induction programme,
access to training, regular supervision, excellent support from
experienced SLT's and SLTA's, good administration support and a range
of opportunities for CPD. There is also a staff final salary pension
scheme.
For a job description and application form, please apply to the school
on 01202 758320. Informal enquiries and visits will be welcomed by
Sarah Gilling, Head of Speech and Language Therapy on 01202 758338
or
email sgilling@shaftesburysociety.org.
Closing date for return of applications: Friday 4th August 2006
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Appointments
All enquiries
relating to classified
advertising
should be
directed to:
Sophie Duffin at TG
Scott Healthcare,
9 Savoy Street,
London
Tel: 020 7878 2312 ,
Fax: 020 7379 7155
Email:
rcsltads@mcmslondon.co.uk
Speech and
Language
Therapist
Centre Academy is an
Independent Special Needs
School, (currently with 70 students enrolled).
We are looking to recruit a full-time Speech and Language
Therapist commencing September 2006 or January 2007
who enjoys working as part of a team and is keen to
develop a whole school approach in addressing the
communications environment.
Required at St Joseph's School for the Visually Impaired,
Dublin
You will have the opportunity to work alongside another
Speech and Language Therapist, currently based part time
at the school. Training will be provided as needed. Salary
is negotiable depending on experience.
Commencing 28th August 2006
Interviews early August
Please send a copy of your CV to Ms. Hakim, Centre
Academy London, 92 St John's Hill, Battersea, London,
SW11 1SH, or telephone 020 7738 2344 should you have
any queried regarding the position.
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Speech & Language
Therapy Manager
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Heading a small SLT Department providing SLT services
to Preschool, through to young adults.
Please send applications with Cv and Covering letter to:
hr@stjosephs.ie
For informal queries please contact Mary Leonard on
00353 868546744
For further information: www.stjosephsvi.ie
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Vacancy No:
Position:
Location:
Grade & Salary:
Hours
Closing Date:
1065
Speech and Language Therapist
Linkage College, Weelsby Campus, Grimsby
Grade 12, from £27,841 per annum
Full time, 36.25 hours per week (flexible)
Monday 31st July 2006
Benefits include a minimum of 10 weeks holiday
per year, meals provided whilst on duty and
pension scheme (subject to eligibility).
We are seeking to appoint a Speech and
Language Therapist to join our specialist service
providing residential further education,
residential care and employment services for
adults with learning difficulties. The post will
focus primarily on the needs of our learners
within our college campus at Grimsby, North East
Lincolnshire. The successful applicant will join our
established Clinical Services Team, which includes
an experienced Speech and Language Therapist,
Consultant Psychiatrist, Chartered Psychologist,
nurses and specialist teachers.
Linkage holds the Investor in People award and is
committed to support staff in their continued
professional development. We would particularly
welcome applications from experienced Speech
and Language Therapists, however newly
qualified Speech and Language Therapists are
also welcome to apply.
We will be happy to discuss flexible working
patterns, including job share, in order to attract
quality applicants. For further information and /
or discussion about the requirements of the post,
please contact Rex Richardson on 01472 372355.
For an application pack only please contact our
Personnel Department on 01522 815032 or email
personnel@linkage.org.uk
Coming soon RCSLT job adverts
online
Contact Sophie Duffin on: 020 7878 2312
www.rcslt.org
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Over 4000 members now
signed up!
Complete your CPD
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Appointments
It's an exciting
time to join the
RCSLT Council
We are seeking applications
for the following highly prestigious RCSLT
Council posts, as the present post holders are
coming to end of their terms of office.
RCSLT Deputy Honorary Treasurer
Do you have skills in budget setting, financial analysis and
reporting? Would you like to improve your experience of taking
an important role in the governance and financial management
of your professional body? We are looking for a member to
support the Honorary Treasurer and the Finance and
Organisational Resource Board (FORB). You will work closely with
the Head of Performance and Contracts on financial matters
relating to RCSLT business.
RCSLT Councillor for Service Management
Are you an experienced manager who can help the RCSLT lead
members through changes in commissioning and service
management? We are looking for a member to work closely with
UK managers and RCSLT officers, defining a clear vision for the
future of management within the profession and providing
oversight for the development of RCSLT policies relating to
service management issues. You will chair the RCSLT
Management Board.
RCSLT Councillor for the Membership and
Communications Board
Can you help the RCSLT to communicate more effectively with its
members? Would you like to learn more about public and
customer relations? We are looking for an SLT who can help the
RCSLT develop services and products for members and other
customers and help define an RCSLT communications strategy.
You will chair the Membership and Communications Board.
RCSLT Councillor for Policy and Partnerships
Can you help the RCSLT develop policies and positions that will
help SLTs in their work? Would you like to learn more about policy
and partnership development? We are looking for a member who
has an enthusiasm for building positive relationships and
networks, with a view to influencing others to the benefit of SLTs.
You will also chair the Policy and Partnerships Board.
All posts are two-year positions, starting in September 2006. As
Deputy Honorary Treasurer you will serve on the FORB, for two
years, followed by two years as Honorary Treasurer and member
of the RCSLT Council.
The deadline for receipt of nominations is
31 July 2006.
Contact Bridget Ramsay for an application pack or
more information. Tel: 0207 378 3001 or email:
bridget.ramsay@rcslt.org. Visit: www.rcslt.org/about
www.rcslt.org
Paperless direct
debit arrives
You no longer have to complete a mandate if
you wish to pay your RCSLT
subscription by direct debit (DD).
Just contact RCSLT Membership Manager
Sharon Silvera, tel: 0207 378 3011 or email:
sharon.silvera@rcslt.org, if you want to set up a
DD, change your details or cancel your DD.
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