Speech and Language Therapy Assistant | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 01 Freeman Hospital, NE7 7DN |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6170899/317-2024-16-07-DR |
Summary
We are seeking a motivated, enthusiastic, Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Assistant to join our highly specialist team at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital working with adults in voice/upper airway disorders and head and neck cancer. It is a predominantly out-patient setting.
The assistant role will support the therapists in a varied capacity and requires excellent organisation and flexibility. There will be direct patient contact (under the supervision of SLTs), supporting in nasendoscopy and X-ray clinics, and also many non-clinical duties such as database management, data collection for audit and research purposes, stock-checking, equipment ordering and maintaining a clean, safe, work-place environment.
You will become an integral part of a wider multi-disciplinary team including surgeons/physicians, clinical nurse specialists, dieticians, ward and out-patient staff.
• Interview date: 15th May 2024
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
To work flexibly each day undertaking a wide variety of tasks from direct patient work to cleaning equipment after use. The demands of the role can change quickly and the post-holder will have strong skills in prioritisation and working in a team setting.
Excellent computer skills are required to undertake collection and entry of outcome measures and database management.
To monitor stock levels and order equipment, working with clinical leads and the service lead to ensure cost-efficiency is optimised.
You will have excellent communication skills, allowing you to engage with a wide range of staff, carers and patients, many of whom have significant communication difficulties, including neck-breathing.
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, we have around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• To assist highly specialist speech and language therapist in providing a quality service for patients. This essentially includes:
o To assist in clinical procedures, within competence, with specialist SLT staff.
o To be responsible for stock maintenance and ordering of equipment
o To implement speech therapy designed treatment programmes, making modifications within programmes to suit patient circumstances and progress
o To perform administrative and clerical duties as required.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024
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