Highly Specialist Community Speech and Language Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, E11 1NR |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6227555/259-6227555WXH |
Summary
Barts Health NHS Trust has an exciting opportunity for a passionate community band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to join our SLT team, based at Whipps Cross Hospital and Waltham Forest Borough in a full-time permanent role.
The successful post holder will lead on developing and managing a service worthy of our diverse patients with swallowing and communication difficulties in a community. The post holder will manage a flexible service based in clinic and patient homes, face-to-face and virtually of complex neuro and general cases.
You will be provided with steady and empowering support through clinical supervision, line management and CPD opportunities.
You will need advanced dysphagia competencies, excellent communication skills and experience of working with adults with acquired conditions.
The post holder will be a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working within the borough of Waltham Forest with a varied and complex caseload of adults with acquired conditions.
The post holder will be based within acute SLT team office at Whipps Cross Hospital and will work out in the Waltham Forest Community across a range of settings including virtually, in the patient’s own home, nursing homes and any other appropriate community settings. The post holder will provide specialist assessment and treatment to adults with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the acute inpatient SLT team at Whipps Cross Hospital, as well as wider multi-disciplinary teams across Barts Health NHS Trust to facilitate a safe and quality service within the community.
The post holder may be required to supervise band 6 SLT’s and band 3 staff if appropriate and to support student speech and language therapists on their placements. The post holder will access support and supervision from the Clinical Lead SLT.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024