Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,162 - £44,629 Per annum inc. HCAS (Pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Camberley, GU16 7UJ |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6200617/151-CG-211 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our Stroke Early Supported team. This with provide any candidate with the experience of working alongside our friendly and supportive community team which consists of Nurse, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist, Psychologist and Rehabilitation Technicians.
The Stroke ESD team is part of the wider stroke pathway within Frimley Park Hospital, which is the hyper-acute unit for the area. Referrals for the team come from the acute wards and also the local community hospitals.
Development post considered for a suitable candidate
You will need to have completed your dysphagia competencies and be able to demonstrate that you have been working independently with a dysphagia and dysphasia caseload including acute stroke for at least a minimum of one year.
You will need to have completed your NQP framework and be able to evidence you have managed patients with more complex dysphagia and communication impairments with minimal support.
You must be able to travel between patient's homes within the community.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our threecore values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Working alongside the Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist in a clinical role as a key member of the Stroke ESD team in a developing specialist role, to deliver evidence-based clinical services. Placement educator for Speech and Language Therapy students. No budgetary responsibility.
To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team at Frimley Park Hospital, providing evidence based speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a designated group of patients. Developing knowledge and skills in a specialist area and undertaking extended role competency framework/s under supervision.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 29 Apr 2024
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