A fantastic opportunity has arisen through collaborative and partnership working with the Acute trusts, which has resulted in a number of new posts being resourced within the service level agreement.

This exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join the Acute team across the 2 Acute Hospitals You will join a team of Speech and Language Therapists who are situated within the Acute S& LT team as well as a Larger countywide Team of Adult Speech & Language Therapist and Support Practitioners.

This is a substantive post with the opportunity of full time and part time working.

Please note we will consider Band 5 to Band 6 Development posts depending upon current experience.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with specialist knowledge of differential diagnosis in adults with speech, language and swallowing difficulties and experience working with patients across various pathways.

The post holder will work within the Adult Speech and Language Therapy team to manage a complex caseload comprising a range of adult clients with various differential diagnosis.

The post holder will supervise SLT Assistant Practitioners and volunteers.

The post holder will provide clinical teaching of SLT students and will participate in the development and delivery of specialist SLT training to others.

Being a car driver is essential. There are two location teams to cover within the county

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• recognised S& lt degree Evidence of sucessful completeion of Speicalist Short course e.g Dysphagia

Desirable

• membership to CEN/ SIG

Experience and Skills

Essential

• oEvidence of clinical experience as qualified SLT in relevant field.
• oEvidence of specialist knowledge/skills as a result of experience/CPD.
• oAble to organise work load and manage time. oAbility to prioritise work load - clinical and non-clinical.

Employer details

Employer name

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Highfield clinical care centre

Cliftonville Road

Northampton

NN1 5BU

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