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Band 6 Speech & Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 13 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 May 2025 |
| Location: | Westcliff on Sea, SS0 0RY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9390-25-1040 |
Summary
We are a very friendly speech & language therapy team who seek to enable all staff to progress to their maximum potential, and to support their colleagues to do the same. The SALT department has a good profile within the hospital and strong links to our main referring consultants, and other professionals. With a strong ethos in evidence based practice and supportive patient intervention, the team works across acute and stroke wards to provide excellent patient intervention and therapy within the acute phase of their illness. We foster good links with our community colleagues to ensure seamless care for patients who may need continuing care post discharge. For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description, but some of the responsibilities include The main responsibilities of the band 6 speech and language therapist are To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. To take a specialist interest in at least one defined area of the service or particular patient type: eg Stroke Acute Rehab, Neuro, CogNeuro, Palliative Care etc working without direct supervision. To participate in clinical audit, protocol development, objective-setting etc as required by the development of the SALT team. To deputise for the Clinical Lead/Band 7 as and when required to do so at meetings etc. To attend clinical supervision in the form of regular face to face meetings with your supervisor, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and team case discussions. To provide supervision and education of Band 5 SALTs and speech and language therapy students / assistants. To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice.