Speech and Language Therapist

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for two full-time band 5 Speech and Language Therapists at Scunthorpe General Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital Grimsby. The role involves working within the acute and community stroke teams with opportunities for cross-site cover.

You will assess and treat adults with communication and feeding/swallowing disorders, with supervision and training toward dysphagia management, and contribute to community services

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of Speech and Language Therapy service as an autonomous practitioner.
• Work as part of the SLT team to deliver services for inpatients and outpatients.
• Manage a defined caseload using evidence-based, patient-centred approaches to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, including discharge planning.
• Provide specialist assessment, management and treatment for adults with communication disorders and feeding/swallowing disorders when dysphagia competencies are reached.
• Deliver community services across North and North East Lincolnshire.

Job description

Are you looking to begin your career as a Speech and Language Therapist working with adults with acquired disorders in acute and community settings? Or to further develop your existing skills within this area? Are you looking to become part of an established, friendly, supportive and sociable team?

Well we have an exciting opportunity for two full-time band 5 posts at Scunthorpe General Hospital and Diana Princes of Wales Hospital Grimsby, with the opportunity for some cross- site cover.

These post will give you the opportunity to work as part of our acute and community stroke team as well as provide input to more general caseloads with acute and community patients. We offer several specialist services including Rehabilitation Medicine, Head and Neck Oncology and Voice, with access to our SLT led Videofluoroscopy and FEES services. The caseload will involve rehabilitation for both swallowing and communication. Post qualification in dysphagia is desirable, however, training and supervision towards the management and treatment and of dysphagia will be offered. The applicant will need to have access to transport and the ability to safely transport themselves and equipment around the required geographical area during the course of their working day.

To provide a high standard of Speech and Language Therapy service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. To work as a member of the Speech and Language Therapy team to provide a comprehensive therapeutic service for inpatients and outpatients. To manage a defined caseload of patients using evidence-based/patient-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, including discharge planning and facilitation. To participate in providing a specialist service comprising assessment, management and treatment, to adults with disorders of communication. To participate in providing a specialist service comprising assessment, management and treatment, to adults with disorders of feeding and swallowing, when post-basic dysphagia level competencies have been reached. We also provide community services in North and North East Lincolnshire. We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; compassion, honesty, respect and teamwork. We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katherine Vickers Job title: Operational Lead for Speech and Language Therapy Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 03033 302410

Alternative contact number 03033 303081