(Over)extended roles
Author: Linda Armstrong
Magazine issue: Summer 11
Page numbers: 25
Date: 31 May 2011
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Linda Armstrong provides the fifth response in our series considering everyday events which need to be on our ethical radar screen: ‘You are one of 3.5 whole time equivalents working with adults with acquired neurological, voice and fluency disorders. A full-time member of the team has been evolving a new role. There is no new money, and no benefit to the team’s usual clients. Where before you had the flexibility to adapt and innovate, you are now struggling to provide them with an evidence based service.’ While speech and language therapy always has and will continue to evolve, Linda cautions that we need to do this in a strategic way, as new roles without new resources are detrimental to existing services which already have evidence suggesting our involvement can be effective and beneficial.
