Band 7 Stroke/Neuro Speech and Language Therapist | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | Welwyn, AL6 9PW |
| Company: | Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7227484/812-25-JM-NS-07 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to work in our friendly community stroke team. You will be working closely with your AHP colleagues to deliver high quality care to patients following a stroke, with possible opportunity to support Patients within the ABI service.
If rehabilitation is your passion then this is the job for you.
You will be part of a well-structured MDT, leading the SLT team, and supporting the leadership in relevant service improvement initiatives.
There is a dedicated in service training program and you will receive regular clinical and management supervision to support you in the role. There are also opportunities for funded training to further develop clinical or leadership skills.
The position is a fixed term part time role (22.5hrs per week) to cover maternity leave. The service does provide weekend cover therefore the successful applicant would be expected to participate within this.
As a registered Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to provide assessment and therapy to adults with:
o Acquired communication disorders, and/or
o Speech and/or
o Language disorders, and/or
o Eating and drinking disorders
To lead and provide a highly specialist SALT service for the Stroke Team within in the Community Neuro Team.
To develop and provide a highly specialist clinical lead role and to support staff working in this area.
To use highly specialist knowledge to advise the SLT Team Lead and the Service Lead regarding service delivery issues for your clinical area.
To work as an active member of the Stroke and Adult Speech and Language Therapy team and to contribute specialist clinical expertise to local clinical networks where appropriate.
To work independently to a highly specialist level and be accountable for own professional actions.
A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust. You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff
We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds
We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now
You've made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.
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MAIN DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:
Patient / Customer Care
1. To determine and carry out appropriate assessments for complex clients and to evaluate the
information gained to make appropriate clinical decisions based on highly specialist clinical knowledge and including a differential diagnosis.
2. To maintain comprehensive and accurate assessment and treatment records for clients in line with the professional standards and local Trust policies.
3. Within a complex caseload to determine and structure appropriate care plans for intervention including treatment, advice, review, discharge, information exchange and communication with client, team members and carers following assessment.
4. To determine where a client’s needs are best met by individual and/or group therapy, and to establish/provide/refer on to a group as appropriate.
5. To fully consult and negotiate with the client with regard to all aspects of intervention and with due regard for their goals, cultural and linguistic background and where appropriate to include carers and/or families.
6. To recognise potential breakdown and conflict in the clinical setting and where it occurs to employ negotiating skills to generate solutions.
7. To use advanced skills to adapt highly specialist care plans to the changing needs of the client, integrating the client’s goals, changing circumstances and any further assessment information.
8. To communicate highly complex condition-related information from assessment results, differential diagnosis and care plans to the client, carers, families, multi-disciplinary team members and/or other professionals as appropriate both verbally and in writing and to ensure
it is understood.
9. To deal sensitively and with empathy with clients who have high levels of anxiety and/or aggression caused by pain/illness/communication difficulty and/or dementia.
10. To be responsible for the delivery of effective care plans with reference to good practice including highly specialist programmes of care using a wide range of therapy approaches, evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
11. To employ counselling skills with clients and carers where appropriate.
12. To demonstrate skills in motivating clients and/or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
13. To ensure that where a client is being seen by a multi-disciplinary team/other professionals that the appropriate Speech and Language Therapy interventions are clearly communicated and integrated with all aspects of the client’s care.
14. To identify and manage suitable transfer of intervention for clients leaving inpatient settings by ensuring prompt and comprehensive communication with appropriate teams including the community, other rehabilitation settings and/or specialist units.
15. To contribute to individual or team discharge planning in discussion with the client and carer/s and to communicate the outcome of intervention to relevant people.
16. To lead (be key worker) and to support staff in co-ordinating delivery of care including discharge planning where individual client’s needs are best met by a Speech and Language Therapist.
17. To initiate and develop links with volunteers, voluntary agencies and charities where this might enhance the provision of an individual care plan and to participate in inter-agency team building in Hertfordshire.
18. To use advanced skills in demonstrating practical procedures to individual clients and other relevant people.
19. To assess needs, identify appropriate software and equipment (including high and low tech communication aids), coordinate trials/purchase of software/equipment, introduce
augmentative communication equipment to the clients and carers and to monitor changing needs for appropriate clients.
20. To demonstrate advanced skills in dealing with complex issues, generating and implementing appropriate strategies for prioritisation of own time in order to carry out clinically related administrative duties, relevant to the caseload and operation of the department.
See Job description and person specification for the full list of roles and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Saturday 7 Jun 2025
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