Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Are you passionate about providing a high-quality service to stroke patients? Are you an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge? Lincolnshire’s Stroke Service is a dynamic, continuously developing service.

As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Lincolnshire Stroke Service, you will provide high quality stroke rehabilitation to patients on the hyper acute and acute stroke unit at Lincoln County Hospital. If you are a team player with a special interest in the area of stroke, look no further, we are looking to recruit to this post. You would be supported and mentored by your SLT band 7 and band 6 colleagues. The service has access to videofluoroscopy and FEES therefore you would be eligible for future instrumental training opportunities.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver high quality patient centred care and rehabilitation to people who have recently experienced a stroke. You will assess and manage communication and swallowing impairments, devise therapy care plans suitable for assistants and participate in service development.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses and Medics. Experience of MDT, working with stroke and skills in dysphagia (including management of eating and drinking with acknowledged risk) are a key aspect of this role.

You will participate in the collection of Speech and Language Therapy data for SSNAP (Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme).

Weekend working is part of the service therefore you will need to be flexible to accommodate this according to service demand.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide assessment, diagnosis and specialist, evidence based intervention to adults who have had a stroke referred for speech and language therapy, including providing self-care and support information, to patients, carers, and other professionals.

To manage a caseload of adults who are in the hyper acute and acute phases following stroke.

To supervise and monitor the implementation of specialist treatment programmes delivered by Band 5 SLTs and SLTAs. To allocate tasks appropriately to them while retaining overall responsibility for the designated caseload

To provide clinical support to  SLTs and SLTAs.

Base: Lincoln County Hospital - Stroke Unit

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert in full before applying. This post is ACUTE only.