Job summary
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join the Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Adult Acquired Community Team. We are looking to recruit a part-time permanent, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to provide assessment, intervention and rehabilitation to patients within both community and ward settings based at Blyth Community Hospital. This opportunity is aimed at experienced Band 5 staff who are interested in developing specialist level skills in their work with adults.
This role will appeal to innovative Therapists who are committed to delivering the highest quality service for adults with a range of speech, language and swallowing disorders.
Main duties of the job
This post offers an exciting opportunity to develop your skills with a mixed adult caseload based in the Blyth Valley area. You will have the opportunity to work within a supportive SLT team and gain experience working with a wide range of clients, including the newly refurbished Blyth ward (primarily for rehabilitation) and community clients in both outpatient and home visiting settings.
The post holder will be supported by highly specialist clinicians to develop clinical competencies in the areas of complex dysphagia, videofluoroscopy, endoscopy and rehabilitation. The successful candidate will be supported to develop other skills such as leadership, clinical supervision and education, and will be provided with structured support and supervision. The post holder will be part of a large team of passionate therapists working collectively towards challenging annual objectives and offering a robust focus on CPD. The post holder will be involved in teaching and mentoring of ward staff, MDT colleagues, junior SLTs and students and will work closely within the MDT to enable seamless patient centred care.
Working for our organisation
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do, and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
We can offer you a highly rewarding post which includes:
- Clinical supervision
- Regular team meetings, peer support and supervision, clinical focus groups and the opportunity to attend Regional Clinical Excellence Networks.
- Annual Appraisal
- In-Service Training
- Opportunities to contribute to quality improvement work and innovations
- Close links with Newcastle University and other regional services including RCAS (Regional Communication Aid Service)
- Close working with Clinical Leads, Highly Specialist SLT’s in dysphagia, aphasia, dysarthria, AAC and stammering in relation to evidence based practice, innovation, audit and caseload management
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be based in the SLT department in Blyth Community Hospital providing outpatient clinics, some ward-based intervention, home visits and group therapy. The successful candidate will be involved in liaising with community agencies.
The successful candidate will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post as there is the requirement to offer home visits.
Essential Criteria:
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses or equivalent experience in the management of acquired swallowing and communication conditions
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Kellett
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Adult SLT service
- Email address
- [email protected]
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