Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Community Stroke

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join a dedicated team within a community stroke rehabilitation service. This role involves providing essential support to stroke survivors facing communication and swallowing challenges, while working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary setting. With a focus on promoting independence and self-management, you will engage in community outreach, manage junior staff, and contribute to an integrated care model. Join a leading healthcare organization that values your professional development and offers a supportive environment to enhance your skills and career. If you are passionate about making a difference in patient care, this role is for you.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Flexible working options

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy and HCPC registration required.
• Experience in community settings and managing a caseload is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist services to stroke survivors with communication/swallowing difficulties.
• Manage junior staff and deliver community-based therapy.

Skills

Communication Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Dysphagia Competencies

Assessment Skills

Supervision Skills

Education

RCSLT recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Registered member of RCSLT

HCPC membership

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Community Stroke

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Stroke Rehabilitation Service for a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join our team.

This role is suitable for those with experience in working with adults with acquired communication and swallowing issues and experience working with stroke survivors and patients with neurological conditions, or who have transferable skills and knowledge such as dysphagia competencies.

The Community Stroke Rehabilitation service provides Early Supported Discharge as well as support for people who have a new therapeutic need some time after their stroke. This is in line with the integrated model for stroke services providing a needs-based service.

You will join our multidisciplinary team which consists of Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists as well as an experienced team of Associate and Assistant practitioners.

You may be required to travel to different sites across the Essex, Suffolk and Tendring area. A full UK driving licence and access to a car is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a specialist service to adults who have survived a stroke, who present with communication and/or swallowing difficulties.

Provide community-based services in North East Essex, and also provide SLT cover to stroke beds in the Community hospital at Harwich. Community work includes some home visits, necessitating some lone working and travel between places of work across North East Essex.

You will manage the work of junior staff, assistants, students and volunteers in their professional area.

You will work as part of the integrated team to deliver seven day therapy input to patients with the aim of returning them to maximum independent living, promoting self-management on all activities of daily living.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RCSLT recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registered member of RCSLT
• HCPC membership
• Evidence of attendance at specialist courses e.g. Maggie Lee Huckabee
• Membership of regional/national specialist groups/forums

Experience

• Experience of working in various settings
• Experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Liaising with other agencies/other staff groups
• Experience of working with stroke survivors or people with acquired neurological conditions
• Experience of independently managing own caseload, including patients with dysphagia
• Experience supervising students/ therapy assistants
• Teaching/training other staff
• Experience of working with people with voice disorders
• Experience of working in a community setting

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of communication and swallowing problems in neurologically impaired patients
• Knowledge of outcome measures and evidence based practice in relation to communication and dysphagia assessment and therapy intervention
• Assessment of communication impairments by various means, including informal assessment, as well as a range of standardised assessments
• Highly developed communication/interpersonal skills
• Involvement in audit/clinical governance within Speech and Language Therapy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata