Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Forest Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust is looking for a motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join the Stroke Team on a permanent, full-time basis, with weekend shifts on a rota. The role covers work across the Acute Stroke Unit at King's Mill Hospital and the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward at Mansfield Community Hospital.

You will join an award-winning, forward-thinking team that values compassionate leadership, staff well-being and everyone’s unique contribution.

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will join the Stroke Team working both on the Acute Stroke Unit at King's Mill Hospital and the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward based at Mansfield Community Hospital.

The stroke service covers weekends and therefore the successful applicant will need to work weekends is on a rota basis. This is a full time post.

You will be joining a forward thinking innovative team at an exciting time. The team has a focus on compassionate leadership, staff well-being and valuing every member of the team for their unique contributions.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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