Speech and Language Therapist - Adult Acute and Community - Band 7

Jarrodean Healthcare; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Applications are invited from suitably-experienced Speech & Language Therapists to join the Adult Acute and Community service in a Band 7 Advanced Specialist post on the beautiful Island of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands.
The SLT team comprises a Band 8A Clinical Lead (to whom this position reports), a Band 6 SLT, and a Band 3 Assistant.
You will manage a clinical caseload and provide a highly specialist service to adults with speech, language, communication, and/or swallowing difficulties in the acute hospital, rehabilitation, continuing care, and community settings across the island of Guernsey.

The role affords significant prospects to develop creative pathways of care reflective of individual need, client groups, and evidence-based practice.
We particularly encourage applicants with a passion to expand services in objective evaluation of swallowing e.g., VFSS and FEES.
As well as responsibility for your own highly specialist caseload, you will be supervising the Band 6 SLT and Band 3 SLT Support Worker.
The scope of the role can be tailored to your areas of specialism where research, audit, and service development are integral and supported by the Lead SLT.
You will on occasion be required to deputise for the Band 8A Clinical Lead.

A full job description is available upon application.

Please note that Guernsey has adopted the AfC banding system but have applied their own salary scale.
The current Band 7 salary range is £55,578 to £73,085 plus an annual bonus of £1,605 and higher unsocial hours enhancements; 36% evening/Saturday and 72% Sunday/BH.
Annual leave starts at 36 days up to 42 days with full credit for NHS service for annual leave and sick leave.

Person requirements:
- Speech & Language Therapist with full HCPC registration and membership with the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Five years post-registration experience with current or recent experience at Band 6 or equivalent
- A post graduate dysphagia training qualification
- Level C RCSLT Dysphagia competencies
- Level 3 RCSLT VFSS competencies
- RCSLT Tracheostomy competencies.

The benefits of working in Guernsey include:
- A higher-than-UK salary.
- An annual bonus of £1,605.
- A flat rate 20% income tax.
- No Council tax or VAT.
- A relocation payment of £5,000*.
- On-site Staff Accommodation or a generous allowance for private rental accommodation*.
- A continental lifestyle, where the people are friendly, and crime is very low.
*Full T&C in relocation directive.