Speech & Language Therapist

Job overview

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist – Early Supported Discharge/ Older Adult Mental Health

Band 6  37.7 Hours

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time  Band 6 position working  with our Early Supported Discharge for Stroke service in Essex     ( 2.5 days ) and Havering Older Adult Mental Health Team 2.5 days) .  This post has the benefit of working closely with our well-established and experienced Stroke Hub Team whilst sitting within our well supported and friendly SLT team of Band 7, 6’s and SLTA’s who provide a highly specialist level of service to our Community Inpatient Wards, Early Supported Discharge (ESD) for Stroke and General Community caseloads.

You will play a key role withing the Intensive Havering Older Adult Team, in providing specialised speech and language therapy services to individuals with Dementia. Your primary responsibility will be to deliver community-based support, aiming to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions, offer education to care homes and facilitate the individual's well-being and recovery within their familiar environment.

Main duties of the job

You will join a team of passionate and enthusiastic professionals who support adults and their families with communication and swallowing difficulties following a stroke and diagnosis of dementia.

The SLT ESD service provides rapid assessment and intensive rehabilitation with goal focused therapy for up to 6 weeks.  As such, the post holder is required to demonstrate specialist level assessment, management and therapy for both communication and dysphagia impairments.  For both  roles, you will  be  able  expected to conduct assessment and  comprehensive therapy programmes .  Working with both teams, the successful candidate will have excellent organisational skills, be a strong communicator and a proactive member of the MDT.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a team we value and recognise the clinical and professional skill development and are keen to support SLTs across their career. To enable this SLTs in our team are provided with regular clinical supervision and annual appraisals.  They have opportunities for internal and external CPD, and are encouraged to participate in audit, research and quality improvement work.

The combined post is  delivered  in patient’s homes and care homes across the patch (including Brentwood, Basildon and Thurrock and Havering .

As such a car driver with valid license is essential.

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Use of AI

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