To show my gratitude to the university where I trained to be a Speech & Language Therapist (Leeds Met, Leeds Beckett) each year the SLT department and I run a Clinical Innovation Award.
The ‘criteria’ we came up with were that the winning project will:
- demonstrate a creative response to a problem or issue in the service where student is on placement, or will identify a new opportunity for development in the service
- include the needs/opinions of stakeholders (i.e. SLT team, or the views of service users or other members of wider MDT team)
- have a clear and tangible outcome
- show value to and impact on the service/service users
- acknowledge the current evidence base and additional relevant sources eg websites,
professional organisations, client or service data
- be readily applied to current clinical practice
- include a plan in terms of execution of project
- include elements that are engaging, measurable and sustainable
The project will be submitted along with the placement workbook and will include a short write-up demonstrating how the criteria above have been met.
Submissions will be shortlisted by LBU Tutors and the winner will is judged by me and announced before graduation with the proviso that winnings (£400 for the winner and £100 for the runner-up) are spent within 12 months and the winners write a short resume (100 words) of how their prize money was spent, and how it supported their creative development as an SLT.
Stay tuned find who won this year!