Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Are you a dynamic, motivated and dedicated Speech and Language Therapist, ready to take your next step as a Band 6 working in our 'Outstanding'-rated NHS community foundation trust? Exciting opportunities have arisen for a band 6 Speech and Language Therapist within our Community Learning Disability Team. We would consider adapting the band 6 position to a development post for a band 5 Therapist looking to develop into a band 6 role, with support.

You will be working with a supportive and experienced multi disciplinary team of Nurses, Speech and Language therapists, Occupational therapists and Vision and Hearing specialists, alongside social care staff and partner organisations.

You will be part of a team that covers Adults with a Learning Disability and complex/ multi-disciplinary needs. You will be working in a variety of community settings and manage a mixed caseload supporting both communication and dysphagia needs and people who are at risk of or awaiting discharge from acute or inpatient mental health hospitals.

We invite you to take a look round our newly designed website to show you what we offer for our clients, families and carers

https://www.kentcht.nhs.uk/service/community-learning-disability-team/the-hop/

Main duties of the job

The post holders will provide speech and language therapy assessment and intervention to adults with a learning disability who are referred to the West Kent community LD team.   They will work as members of the multi-disciplinary team and give clinical advice and support to other professionals, support workers and the clients’ care networks.  To supervise and manage the work of other Speech and Language Therapy staff, support workers and Speech and Language Therapy students. Caseload allocation along with clinical roles and responsibilities will be commensurate with the post banding for successful candidates.

We're interested in meeting clinicians who have the right values and passion, and are also looking for candidates who are excited about the opportunity to undertake training and development in clinical areas that they may be less experienced in, including dysphagia.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application.  We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.