Community Speech & Language Therapist - 11 Months Fixed Term Contract

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Hadleigh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

£8K relocation package

NHS discount

Staff benefits

Job summary

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Hadleigh is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to provide a service across South East Essex for adults with communication and swallowing disorders seen within the service.

Role includes community-based care, managing a clinical caseload, triaging referrals, developing an area of clinical specialism, delivering training to colleagues, and contributing to audits and service improvement projects.

Qualifications

• Qualified Speech and Language Therapist.
• Registration with HCPC (assumed for role).

Responsibilities

• Provide continuing care for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties in the community.
• Prioritise and manage own clinical caseload.
• Triaging and prioritising new referrals.
• Develop a clinical specialism and support colleagues.
• Deliver training to SLTs and MDT members.
• Initiate audits and service improvement projects.
• Supervise less experienced SLTs, students and assistants.
• Make differential diagnoses based on assessments.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Clinical prioritisation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Job Overview

To provide a Speech and Language Therapy service across South East Essex for adults with communication and swallowing disorders seen within the service.

Job Overview

To provide a Speech and Language Therapy service across South East Essex for adults with communication and swallowing disorders seen within the service.

Main duties of the job

• To work as part of the service team to provide continuing care for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties in the community.
• To be responsible and accountable for the independent prioritisation and management of own clinical caseload.
• To begin to take an active role in triaging and effectively prioritising new referrals.
• To begin developing a clinical specialism and supporting colleagues within this specialist area.
• To deliver training to other Speech and Language Therapists and the wider multi-disciplinary team within your specialist area.
• To be actively involved in and work towards initiating audits and service improvement projects.
• To supervise the work of less experienced SLTs, students and assistants and ensure that those to whom tasks are delegated, e.g. unqualified Speech and Language Therapy staff, have the appropriate level of competence. To work towards providing clinical supervision for a newly-qualified Speech and Language Therapist and support them through their NQP competencies.
• To make a differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing difficulties on the basis of specialist formal and informal clinical assessments; to ensure that all interventions are based on accurate, appropriate and sufficient assessment.

Working for our organisation

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

Benefits

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [e-mail] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.