Speech and Language Therapist - Southend

Job overview

We are looking for a Band 5 Rotational Speech & Language Therapist to join our Adult Acute Wards / Stroke on a part-time basis.

The Speech & Language Therapy team at Southend Hospital have a long history of developing Band 5 therapists to be confident, effective and skilled practitioners.

We would like to offer you the opportunity to share in this history and develop skills learnt in university and placements/first posts to complete your NQT competencies.  This includes proactive training and supervision in dysphagia management, and as your confidence and skillset increases we actively support exposure to FEES, and have plans for videofluoroscopy observation.

With a strong ethos in evidence based practice and supportive patient intervention, the team works across acute and stroke wards to provide excellent patient intervention and therapy within the acute phase of their illness. We foster good links with our community colleagues to ensure seamless care for patients who may need continuing care post discharge.

The team is friendly and caring of each other as well as the patients, and we welcome fresh ideas and are proactive in looking at new assessment/treatment options as research grows within the speech & language therapy community as a whole.

So, if this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply today.

Main duties of the job

We are a very friendly Speech & Language Therapy team who seek to enable all staff to progress to their maximum potential, and to support their colleagues to do the same.

The main responsibilities of the Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist are

• To develop skills with an adult acute caseload in communication and dysphagia assessment and management
• To develop all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
• To attend clinical supervision in the form of regular face to face meetings with your supervisor, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and team case discussions
• To provide supervision and education of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and Speech and Language Therapy students
• To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice
• To participate in clinical audit, protocol development, objective-setting etc as required by the development of the SALT team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Speech and Language role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.