Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

We currently have 2 exciting opportunities for enthusiastic and dynamic Speech & Language Therapists to join our services; Neuro Early Supported Discharge Team and The Community SLT Team!

Neuro Early Supported Discharge:

Neuro ESD is a multidisciplinary team that provides time-limited, intensive, specialist neuro, home-based rehab with patients in Southampton city and surrounding areas. The service supports acute hospital discharges and admission avoidance for patients following an acute stroke or other neurological event.

Community Speech and Language Therapy Service:

The SLT team support people in their own homes, care homes and outpatient settings across Soton and Southwest Hampshire. Patients include those recovering from strokes, people living with Parkinson's disease or dementia, and frail or older individuals who need support with communication or swallowing.

Our teams are part of the HIOWH Neuro Rehab Services, you will work alongside Clinical & Team Leads and you will be supported by the Clinical Matron and Adult SLT Professional Lead. You will receive profession specific and CPD support. The post holder will need to have post graduate experience which must include some specific stroke/neuro clinical experience and evidence of working within an MDT. They must have an enthusiasm for providing evidence-based practice, particularly in the field of aphasia therapy.

For further details please contact: Susan Daniel susan.daniel8@nhs.net or Natalie Windebank natalie.windebank@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

*To work as an autonomous practitioner, assessing diagnosing, and providing timely intervention and management of communication and/or swallowing problems as a member of the team.

*Contribute to data collection, where relevant as member of MDT.

*NEURO ESD ROLE: To work as part of an interdisciplinary neurological community team, in close collaboration with other relevant services/agencies e.g. acute stroke unit, community rehab teams, virtual wards, rapid response etc.

*COMMUNITY SLT ROLE: To collaborate and liaise with MDT colleagues to provide co-ordinated care to clients in the Community setting.

*To provide clinical support, where appropriate to other colleagues, including students.

*To contribute to client information, manage priorities, organise equipment/resources and liaise with other SLTs about continuing care following discharge.

*To be flexible in providing cover to community settings where most needed, as directed by the clinical services manager.

*To contribute, wherever possible, to the administrative processes that ensure the most efficient service delivery for clients.

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence