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Working hours: 37.5 per week

Who Our Opportunity is for:

• We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Speech & Language Therapy Team at COCH. We are looking for a friendly, motivated and enthusiastic individual, with a positive can do attitude who can learn and adapt quickly.  
• We are looking for a Speech & Language Therapy Assistant to work with adult clients who have acquired communication and swallowing difficulties arising from stroke & other neurological conditions.
• You will work across the Speech & Language Therapy service in the hospital and community, assist with groups and in time have your own caseload under the supervision of the therapist.
• Applicants should have a professional and pleasant manner at all times.

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What this Opportunity means:

• This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career within Therapies with regular informal and formal training opportunities.
• Opportunity to work as part of a supportive team.
• All external new starters will attend Trust induction introducing you to our Trust & ensure you settle in.

Your Application:

• Please read the Job Description and Personal Specification carefully before completing your application.
• You offer of employment is subject to 2 satisfactory references, one must be your most recent employer and cover the last 3 years employment, with full contact details including a work email (personal emails are not accepted).
• You must disclose any previous convictions, cautions, reprimands or warnings on the application, unless these are protected under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

If you wish to discuss the post informally please contact Helen Bailey (SALT Team Leader) on 01244 365235.

If we receive sufficient applications then this vacancy will close earlier than advertised

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.                                                                 

 The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.