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Highly Specialist Cleft Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 11 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata (dependant on experience) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 April 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS1 2LY |
| Company: | University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7058565/387-S8565-LH |
Summary
A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for two enthusiastic and experienced speech and language therapists to join our regional multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder swill be a highly specialist speech and language therapists within the specialist cleft speech therapy team. The post holders will be based at the Bristol Dental Hospital within the South West Cleft Service, and will have responsibility for a a caseload of patients from the wider Bristol area, including Bath, West Wilshire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bristol itself.
There are 1.4 wte sessions available which will be taken up by two therapists working across the area.
The post holder will be a highly specialist speech and language therapist within the specialist cleft speech therapy team. The role will include, but is not limited to:
· Assessment, including providing second opinion, diagnosis and treatment, to children and adults with speech difficulties resulting from cleft lip and palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD).
· The post holder will undertake the Specialist Link Therapist role for the Bristol and Bath area as well as having responsibility and accountability for the management of their own highly specialist and complex clinical caseload- formulating plans of support and intervention to this complex client group and providing consultancy to, and liaison with, other professionals involved.
· To provide teaching to other SALTs and professionals.
· To undertake research, implement training programmes and supervise work of other SLTs, assistants and students working with the postholder
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025
We are looking for two enthusiastic and experienced speech and language therapists to join our regional multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder swill be a highly specialist speech and language therapists within the specialist cleft speech therapy team. The post holders will be based at the Bristol Dental Hospital within the South West Cleft Service, and will have responsibility for a a caseload of patients from the wider Bristol area, including Bath, West Wilshire, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bristol itself.
There are 1.4 wte sessions available which will be taken up by two therapists working across the area.
The post holder will be a highly specialist speech and language therapist within the specialist cleft speech therapy team. The role will include, but is not limited to:
· Assessment, including providing second opinion, diagnosis and treatment, to children and adults with speech difficulties resulting from cleft lip and palate and/or velopharyngeal dysfunction (VPD).
· The post holder will undertake the Specialist Link Therapist role for the Bristol and Bath area as well as having responsibility and accountability for the management of their own highly specialist and complex clinical caseload- formulating plans of support and intervention to this complex client group and providing consultancy to, and liaison with, other professionals involved.
· To provide teaching to other SALTs and professionals.
· To undertake research, implement training programmes and supervise work of other SLTs, assistants and students working with the postholder
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025
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