Speech and Language Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking enthusiastic, qualified Speech and Language Therapists to work within our established team of committed SLT's and Assistant SLT's to assist in delivering high quality services to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties across Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

The post holders will have the chance to work with clients presenting with a range of acquired aetiologies including stroke, dementia, neurological conditions, and respiratory conditions. You will be responsible for the assessment and treatment of patients on your caseload.

These posts are suitable for new graduates seeking experience in adult work. The posts form part of our highly successful band 5 rotation scheme, allowing experience in a variety of settings and with a number of client groups.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn't; this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job responsibilities

To develop, improve, maintain, manage communication, swallowing, and feeding skills of adults in a given location, through direct intervention, liaison, and joint working with other staff and carers and across agencies, to maximise their potential, reduce risk, and enable their maximum participation and integration into society.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables, and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
• Health and Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Degree qualification or equivalent

Experience and Knowledge

• Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
• Knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
• Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
• Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/ audit
• Awareness of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
• Awareness of standards of record keeping

Skills

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital