Speech and Language Therapist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 July 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7200050/249-7200050 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a recently-qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and dynamic team working with adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing. The role may include a combination of inpatients and outpatients, both in the hospital setting and in the community. This post would provide a valuable opportunity to develop your skills in a wide variety of adult acquired conditions.
Supervision and support will be provided from more experienced and specialist clinicians within the team. CPD opportunities will also be offered. Some knowledge and skills in dysphagia management is preferred.
1. With appropriate support from designated and more experienced SLT, be an autonomous practitioner ie, have responsibility and accountability for own caseload of open referrals, requiring admission, treatment and discharge decisions, within own level of competence and professional and service parameters.
2. Assess and analyse type, severity and impact of all conditions of speech, language, communication and within own competency-level swallowing impairments in a wide age range of patients. This will be through a variety of formal and informal assessments and information gathering methods; with a high level of support from designated SLT clinical supervisor.
3. Use and analyse results of some formal standardised assessments and, with support, able to analyse and interpret results in relation to theoretical and clinical knowledge of individual patients.
4. Use and develop further sensory skills, in order to carry out core clinical work, such as acoustic and phonetic transcriptions; structured and detailed observation of verbal and non-verbal communication behaviours; and ability to distinguish between discrete differences in oro-pharyngeal muscle function.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
5. Make differential diagnoses and clinical decisions regarding options for hypothesis driven clinical intervention (eg, whether to treat, type of treatment, frequency and duration of treatment, need for onward referral, re-evaluation and discharge) with significant regular and frequent support for clinical practice from designated SLT clinical supervisor.
6. Concentrate intensely during clinical activities (eg, working with patients for therapeutic interventions, writing reports with recommendations, and acting as an expert witness when called).
7. With support, develop insight, skill and experience to work in partnership with the patient, to determine an intervention programme that balances all aspects of their needs depending on their level of impairment, disability, handicap and distress.
8. Apply best available research evidence and evaluative thinking in all areas of practice.
9. With support, communicate highly complex SLT specialist information and clinical judgements of a sensitive or contentious nature where the situation may be emotive, to patients, carers and family, and to other members of the clinical team.
10. Develop the ability, with support, to integrate psychosocial, physical, emotional and environmental factors within a holistic patient centred approach, while working towards a specific therapeutic goal.
Please refer to the JD for full responsibilities
This advert closes on Sunday 29 Jun 2025
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