Allied Health Professionals - Specialist Speech Therapist

  • Department Therapy SLT Outpatients & Community
  • Salary £37,338.00 – £44,962 per annum
  • Closing Date 07/04/2025
  • Location The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford
  • Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
  • Job ref 223-SST-168
  • Pension NHS Pension
  • Holidays Generous Holiday Allowance
  • NHS discount Eligible for NHS Discounts
  • Contract Permanent
  • Hours Part time - 18.75 hours per week (Monday to Friday with weekends and bank holidays as required)

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to work as part of a new initiative to improve patient flow in our acute hospitals. 

We provide a specialist service to sub acute, recovery and rehabilitation community beds aligned to our two district hospitals.  

Our service aims to work as part of an MDT to provide support to patients who have been discharged from the acute wards to a community bed for continued rehab or support to enable them to return to the community. 

This role will support those patients who require continued management of both communication and swallowing difficulties.

The beds will provide support for patients discharged from the stroke, frailty and Orthopaedics wards.

You will be a driven and enthusiastic individual excited by the prospect of being involved with a new initiative with excellent communication skills and a passion for driving patient focused quality care.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work as part of a specialist Community MDT  supporting patients in two community wards, one in each acute hospital.  At Telford there will be 20 stroke and frailty beds and at Shrewsbury, 32 frailty and orthopaedic beds.

You will have experience of working with dysphagia and acquired communication disorders within an MDT setting.  The role will support patients with rehab and to aid patients transitioning from an acute ward back to the community.

Working for our organisation

This post will sit within the wider community SLT team which covers the county of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. 

We are a small but well established team who cover a range of clinical areas including all four community hospitals providing both a ward based and outpatient service, input to the local ICS teams and domiciliary teams.  We also cover the specialist orthopaedic hospital and specialist spinal unit. 

We provide a countywide voice service, which accepts referrals from numerous sources.  We input into a joint ENT consultant clinic and are in the process of re-establishing SLT led Nasendoscopy clinics.

Our acute colleagues deliver a video fluoroscopy clinic and we are in the process of re establishing a FEES service.

We are strong advocates of regular clinical supervision, management supervision and actively seek to support the health and wellbeing of our colleagues.  We have regular whole team meetings and CPD sessions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.  

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In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised.
 
Unfortunately we do not accept CVs or keep them on file. If you are unable to apply online please contact the person named in the advertisement for the post you are interested in.
 
We are committed to offering an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible.  In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
 
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

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