Department of Speech and Language Therapy: Adult Service

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Student Clinical Placement Introductory Pack

January 2014

Contents

Page 3 Introduction Page 4 Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Page 5 Adult Speech and Language Therapy Page 6 Locations and travel information Page 7 Map Page 8 What to expect on placement Background reading Page 9 Organisational Chart

Introduction

Welcome to Cardiff and Vale Adult Speech and Language Therapy Service.

We hope that you will enjoy your placement with our team and have a rewarding, learning experience. To help you settle in, we have produced this introductory student pack. It contains information which will familiarise you with the department and let you know about a variety of important and relevant issues.

Cardiff and Vale UHB also has a comprehensive website. Some of the information in this pack comes from this and further details are available at: http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/864/

Before your placement begins, please ensure you have completed the pre-placement documentation given to you by UWIC. The information you provide will let your Placement Educator (PE) know your learning needs and expectations. At the beginning of the placement, he or she will collaborate with you to construct your aims for the placement. Therefore, do have a think about what you want to achieve before you start. UWIC also produce a student clinical handbook, which contains further details about clinical placements in general.

We welcome student feedback on your experience of placement with us. Do please feel that you can discuss any queries or issues with your PE during the course of your placement. You also have the support of your tutor at UWIC and the Clinical Coordinator within our team to discuss placement issues as necessary. UWIC provide you with feedback forms for completion at the end of the placement and we appreciate you taking the time to do these as we use them to inform and improve future placements.

Finally, please feel free to share your experiences of any interesting research or practice- developments with the staff. This helps us keep up-to-date and often promotes interesting discussion and learning for both clinician and student. Do not hesitate to ask for any information or resources which interest you, as we are here to help and guide you.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

The headquarters of the Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board are at the address below:

Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board HQ Whitchurch Hospital Park Road Whitchurch Cardiff CF14 7XB Tel: 029 2074 7747

Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board is one of the largest NHS organisations in the UK. We provide day to day health services to a population of around 445,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan who need emergency and scheduled hospital treatment and mental health care, as well as delivering care in people's own homes and community clinics.

We are also responsible for the delivery of NHS primary care services in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, including general practitioners, community pharmacists, dentists and optometrists.

We also serve a wider population across South and Mid Wales for specialties such as paediatric intensive care, specialist children's services, renal services, cardiac services, neurology, bone marrow transplantation and medical genetics.

We are a teaching health board with close links to Cardiff University. The University boasts a high profile teaching, research and development role within the UK and abroad. Together we are training the next generation of medical professionals.

We manage nine hospitals and seventeen health centres, and also provide services in health centres run by our NHS partner organisations both within Cardiff and the Vale and beyond, in Caerphilly and Merthyr for example. Cardiff and Vale University Health Board’s nine hospitals are; Barry Hospital, Cardiff Royal Infirmary West Wing, Children’s Hospital for Wales, University Hospital Llandough, Rookwood Hospital, St. David’s Hospital, University Dental Hospital, University Hospital of Wales, and Whitchurch Hospital.

Speech & Language Therapy (Adult)

We offer a wide range of inpatient, outpatient and community services to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties throughout Cardiff and the Vale.

Who do we work with?

Speech and Language Therapists work with adults with communication problems and/or eating and swallowing problems associated with:

 stroke

 head injury

 Parkinson's disease

 Motor Neurone Disease

 dementia

 cancer of the head, neck and throat (including laryngectomy)

 voice problems

 physical disabilities

 stammering (dysfluency)

 mental health conditions

 other neurological conditions

 other degenerative conditions

We often work in teams with a range of health professionals and work closely with families, carers and others involved with the patient.

There are some therapists in the department who are able to provide therapy through the medium of Welsh.

Locations

There are Speech and Language Therapists based at the following locations throughout the Health Board:

 University Hospital of Wales: Tel: 029 20743012 Fax: 029 20743013

 University Hospital Llandough: Tel: 029 20725255 Fax: 029 2071 5446

 Rookwood Hospital: Tel: 029 20313733 Fax: 029 20313733

 West Wing Hospital: Tel: 029 20335266 Fax:029 20335266

 St. David's Hospital: Tel: 029 20536663 Fax: 029 20536663

 Whitchurch Hospital (Neuropsychiatry Unit): Tel: 029 20336079 Fax: 029 20621273

 Barry Hospital: Tel No: 01446 704133

We provide an inpatient service at all the above locations.

Outpatient and domiciliary visits are arranged throughout the UHB.

Travel Information

http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/864/page/40891

Cardiff Cardiff North West

Vale

Cardiff South and East

7 What to expect on placement:

This will depend on your year of study and the particular placement setting. You will be required to contact your Placement Educator (PE) AT LEAST one week prior to the start of the placement in order to obtain specific information and relevant guided reading. Please ensure that your expectations of the placement are in line with the nature of that placement / setting / client group. In general terms the first session will be spent on induction into the placement and agreeing specific placement aims and objectives. See the UWIC handbook for further guidance and specific paperwork relevant to your placement. Your PE will be guided by the standards set by RCSLT and HPC for placements in addition to those specified by UWIC in the handbook. The PE will aim to conduct a review of your progress half way through the placement and then discuss your report on the final day of placement.

Background Reading:

Please ensure that prior to commencing placement, you have read the following in preparation:

 Cardiff and Vale UHB website in order to gain some awareness of the organisation in which we operate. See above link.

 Relevant sections of. RCSLT (2006) Communicating Quality 3.

 Relevant sections of RCSLT, (2005). Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Clinical Guidelines.

 Relevant lecture notes.

Your PE will give you further guidance regarding reading specific to your placement.

8 Speech and Language Therapy: Adult Service Organization Chart: October 2013

Ruth Nieuwenhuis Head of Adult SLT Service: Strategic Lead for Community Services: Therapy Divisional Lead for Medicine

Maria Harvey Deputy to Head of Service Specific Responsibility for SLT Out-Patient Service SLT Lead for Voice Disorders Directorate Lead for ENT/Head & Neck

Fay McCaffer Nia Came Karen Bonham Annette Penn Sarah Clements SLT Lead for Stroke SLT Lead for Brain Injury SLT Lead for Brain Injury SLT Lead for Alternative SLT Lead & Spinal Injury, Rookwood & Spinal Injury, Rookwood Augmentative Communication for Laryngectomy & + Acute In-patients, UHW + Neuro-psychiatry, (Paediatrics) Tracheostomy Directorate Lead for Welsh Whitchurch Rookwood UHW Language Directorate Lead for Neuro- psychiatry

Nerys Hall Beth Bowen Natalie Lennard Rebecca Wooller Sarah Bailey Senior Specialist SLT in Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT for Senior Specialist SLT in Dysphagia/In-Pt Co-ordinator in Dysphagia for MHSOP for CRT Out-pts & VCRS Neuro-psychaitry for UHW site Whitchurch

Esyllt Glyn Jones Mary Gilbert Jenny Boulter Claire Osborne Sali Curtis Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT in AAC Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT in in Brain Injury CAC in Brain Injury for In-Pts at dysphagia / In-pt CBIT Rookwood Velindre Hospital Co-ordinator for UHL site

Lisa Partridge Claire Fisher Natalie Elliott Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT Senior Specialist SLT UHW / In-Pt Co-ordinator for (H&N) UHW (MHSOP/Community Memory UHW site Team/UHL Rehab DH

Esyllt Glyn Jones Rebekah Huntley Nia Tiltman Esther Watkins Claire Hardcastle Specialist SLT in Specialist SLT – UHW Specialist SLT – UHW Specialist SLT – UHL Specialist SLT – UHL Brain Injury, Rookwood

Leah Davies Anna Kissick Deborah Davies Kate Jarman Lucy Morgan Specialist SLT Specialist SLT Specialist SLT- UHW Specialist SLT UHW + MHSOP Specialist SLT Vale CRS Rookwood (JPDH) + UHL Stroke Unit NW CRT

Nicki Bowen Rachel Dunn Rebecca Gillespie Hannah Davies Eleanor Wallis Specialist SLT – SE CRT Specialist SLT – SE CRT Specialist SLT – NW CRT Specialist SLT - Vale CRS Specialist SLT – Vale CRS

Carly Ramsden Kathy Jones-Williams Specialist Head & Heck SLT Specialist SLT Young Onset UHW Dementia

Vacant Jennifer Dobson Sophie Brown SLT – UHW/UHL SLT – UHL / West Wing RSU SLT – SD OP & UHW

Alison Sawyer Hazel Mulcahy Vacant SLT Technician – Rookwood/UHW/SDH SLT Technician – West Wing RSU/CRT SLT Technician – CRT

Claire Lloyd Ann Smith Lynda Costley PA to HoS UHW A&C Rookwood A&C UHW

Contact Telephone Numbers (please use hospital tie line wherever possible)  UHW SLT department: 02920 743012  Rookwood Hospital SLT department: 02920 313733); brain injury team Rookwood 02920 313816  Rookwood Hospital SLT/CAC department: 02920 313914 or 02920 313956  Rookwood Hospital SLT/CBIT department: 02920 313713 or 02920 313719  Llandough Hospital SLT department: 02920 715255 (voicemail)  St. David’s Hospital SLT department: 02920 536832  Barry Hospital SLT department: 01446 704133; VCRS 01446 7034138  Whitchurch Hospital Neuropsychiatry SLT department: 02920 336079  West Wing Regional Stroke Unit: 02920 335266  SE CRT: 02920 745974; Reception 02920 839988  NW CRT: 02921 847544; Reception 02921 847549  VCRS: 01446 704138 9