Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute Stroke Unit
| Posting date: | 01 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £48,054 Per annum (Pro-rata) inclusive outer HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 October 2024 |
| Location: | London, N18 1QX |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6687362/393-NMUH-1488-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
Are you currently a Band 5 or Band 6 Adult Speech and Language Therapist with experience in dysphagia and communication looking for a new challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate with a special interest in acute stroke to come and work as a member of the Therapy Team covering our 20 bedded Acute Stroke unit.
The post holder will provide specialist swallow and communication assessment and intervention for this patient caseload. You will be supported by a Band 7 Highly Specialist SLT also based on the unit. The role involves being an active member of the multidisciplinary stroke team and includes key working, participating in service developments, audits and service reviews. In addition you will be working collaboratively with
other health and social care professionals in facilitating timely and safe
discharges and appropriate onward referrals.
We are looking for a team player, who is flexible and enjoys working collaboratively. Your role will involve the assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with acquired dysphagia and communication impairments as a result of stroke. As well as providing support and clinical supervision to junior SLT staff and SLT students on clinical placements, you will also be an active member of the multidisciplinary team. This will include in service training, service developments, audits, and service reviews, as well as working closely with other health and social care professionals in facilitating timely and safe discharges and onward referrals to appropriate settings.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospitalhere
The role involves close working with ASU MDT as well as the wider SLT acute team. You will be working closely with relatives and carers as well as community teams and external agencies. Please refer to the Job Description for full details relating this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Oct 2024
Are you currently a Band 5 or Band 6 Adult Speech and Language Therapist with experience in dysphagia and communication looking for a new challenge?
We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate with a special interest in acute stroke to come and work as a member of the Therapy Team covering our 20 bedded Acute Stroke unit.
The post holder will provide specialist swallow and communication assessment and intervention for this patient caseload. You will be supported by a Band 7 Highly Specialist SLT also based on the unit. The role involves being an active member of the multidisciplinary stroke team and includes key working, participating in service developments, audits and service reviews. In addition you will be working collaboratively with
other health and social care professionals in facilitating timely and safe
discharges and appropriate onward referrals.
We are looking for a team player, who is flexible and enjoys working collaboratively. Your role will involve the assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with acquired dysphagia and communication impairments as a result of stroke. As well as providing support and clinical supervision to junior SLT staff and SLT students on clinical placements, you will also be an active member of the multidisciplinary team. This will include in service training, service developments, audits, and service reviews, as well as working closely with other health and social care professionals in facilitating timely and safe discharges and onward referrals to appropriate settings.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospitalhere
The role involves close working with ASU MDT as well as the wider SLT acute team. You will be working closely with relatives and carers as well as community teams and external agencies. Please refer to the Job Description for full details relating this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Oct 2024