Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Community Stroke Team

Wye Valley Nhs Trust; Hereford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join its Community Stroke Team in Herefordshire. You will work within a multidisciplinary team providing community-based assessment and rehabilitation across Herefordshire, with travel to countywide locations as required.

You will assess and treat communication and dysphagia needs, support discharge planning, and contribute to longer-term stroke rehabilitation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in neuro and voice therapy.
• Postgraduate Dysphagia qualification and experience.
• Experience with independent caseload management.
• Triage and prioritisation skills.
• Experience in leading clinical training.
• Clinical leadership and supervision of junior staff.
• Commitment to CPD and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate SLT interventions within the team's caseload; include communication and dysphagia.
• Support service delivery after hospital discharge and during longer-term stroke rehabilitation.
• Engage in service development/quality improvement and leadership activities.
• Supervise staff and contribute to student placement education.

Skills

Neuro and voice experience

Postgraduate dysphagia qualification

Research participation

Independent caseload management

Triage and prioritisation

Leading clinical training

Clinical leadership

Supervision of junior staff

CPD

Job description

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly Community Stroke Team. We provide community based assessment and rehabilitation across Herefordshire

You will be working as part of a skilful and supportive multi-disciplinary team alongside other Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Therapy Support Workers/ Practitioners.

This is a countywide service therefore you will need to be able to fulfil the travel requirements of post.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will assess, plan, implement and evaluate the delivery of speech and language therapy interventions within the team's caseload. This will include communication and dysphagia. You will be part of the therapy service providing support following hospital discharge as well as longer term stroke rehabilitation.

We offer good support, supervision and opportunities for development, including the potential for externally funded courses. As a service we are innovative, forward thinking and encourage staff engagement. You will have the opportunity to be involved in service development/ quality improvement and develop leadership skills as well as supervising staff and engagement in student placement education.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we would want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust. They tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata, per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Location: Hereford

Essential

• Proven experience in neuro and voice
• Postgraduate Dysphagia Qualification and experience
• Participation in research
• Proven experience of independent caseload management
• Triage and prioritisation skills
• Experience of leading clinical training
• Clinical leadership
• Supervision of junior staff
• CPD

Desirable

• Membership of CENs
• Training to care homes
• Journal club

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.