Rotational Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Are you looking to grow your foundation skills working with adults across a range of settings and specialties?

At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, the Speech and Language Therapy Service is excited to recruit an additional band 5 therapist into our rotational structure in order to support us to continue our delivery of high quality patient care.

In our team, we focus on:

• Setting our goals around what matters to the patient
• Identifying  vulnerable patients  early on for intervention
• Being  visible and integrated within our MDTs

Our core band 5 rotations are each 6 months long and focus on:

• Hospital inpatients and ENT voice outpatients
• Stroke rehabilitation pathway (HASU to ICSS)
• Community and care homes

Main duties of the job

Experience working with an adult  caseload and robust undergraduate knowledge and experience with a range of acquired communication, voice and swallowing disorders will be essential. A successful candidate will be joining an SLT team with a strong commitment to integrated working and quality improvement. There will be excellent support as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system. You will have the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist staff and integrate into a variety of specialist multi-disciplinary teams across a range of clinical settings.

A car driver with access to a vehicle is essential to meeting the travel requirements of working in a community setting.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for details regarding the main roles and  responsibilities of this post.

The trust provides a range of 7-day services, involving our Speech and Language Therapists. Post-holders will be required to participate in these services when an appropriate level of clinical competence has been achieved.