Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

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Job description

Main area: Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 32.25 hours per week

Job ref: 270-TF894-ACS

Employer: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: St. Marys Hospital

Town: Kettering

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 07/04/2025 23:59

Interview date: 22/04/2025

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to develop your skills within the Adult Speech & Language Therapy Service. Our service currently has Community Lead sessions available in the North of the county with WTE 0.56 sessions. Also available are WTE 0.3 acute ward sessions at NGH.

The successful candidate will be required to provide leadership, including promoting a culture of positivity, involvement, and trust, and acting as a role model for the leadership behaviours.

The post holder will be an experienced Speech and Language Therapist with highly specialist knowledge of differential diagnosis associated with highly complex Dysphagia and communication disorders. Will lead the Community Team and take on management roles and responsibilities within this Team.

You will join the community and wider Acute and community Countywide Adult Speech & Language Therapy team of Speech and Language Therapists and support practitioners. This post involves working as part of the Countywide team and having a flexible approach to service delivery.

There is good professional support and supervision from more senior therapists. We are a dynamic & friendly service who look forward to working with you.

Main duties of the job

1. Independently manage and prioritise a complex, highly specialist caseload of complex dysphagia and complex progressive disorders.
2. Provide leadership support to the other Band 7 within the wider Countywide Team.
3. Provide clinical teaching of Speech and Language Therapy students and develop and deliver specialist training to others in the area of clinical expertise.
4. Initiate and undertake research/Clinical Governance/audit projects within area of expertise.
5. Be involved with Videofluoroscopy with individuals who have significant Dysphagia and take part in analysing the images on PAX and writing the reports (training can be provided).
6. Provide appropriate highly specialist intervention to service users in their own home and evaluate outcomes.
7. Provide advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with complex dysphagia and Speech & Language disorders.
8. Provide second opinions to less experienced colleagues, and expert opinions to others, including advice and support for colleagues referring to specialist services from outside Northampton.
9. Participate in and, where indicated, initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure co-ordination of patient care.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist post graduate short courses, e.g. Dysphagia / Progressive neurology.
• MSc or other recognised graduate courses linked to Specialism.

Knowledge

• Evidence of in-depth experience of specialist clinical area.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good leadership skills.
• Evidence of training within Leadership.
• Evidence of training as clinical supervisor.

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered.

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.