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Speech and Language Therapy Assistant | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £22,816 - £24,336 Per Annum, Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester, M13 9WL |
| Company: | Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6437085/349-MCH-6437085 |
Summary
This is a good opportunity to work as a healthcare assistant with speech and language therapists in a busy multi-disciplinary team at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. The Cleft lip and palate team work with children and young people/adults who have a repaired cleft lip and palate or ‘nasal’ speech problems requiring surgery and /or speech therapy. Patients attend the Unit from all over Greater Manchester, parts of Lancashire and Cheshire..
The post holder will be supporting the work of a team of specialist speech and language therapists, largely carrying out administrative duties but also occasionally working with clients with the support of a fully qualified therapist. The admin type duties include making and designing therapy resources (paper based and electronic), transferring and editing digital video speech samples, taking and distributing minutes of meetings for example.
The post holder should have good communication skills and experience of working with children. Creativity for designing and making speech therapy resources/games would be desirable.
· To work as part of the cleft lip and palate speech and language therapy team as an assistant practitioner providing a range of support to enable the team members to work effectively
· Using creative and IT skills to support the speech and language therapists work with children and families
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team atresourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Jul 2024
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