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Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Band 5 adult Speech and Language Therapy rotation programme. Developed through partnership working between the Adult Speech and Language Therapy services across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) NHS organisations, these rotations offer our Band 5 SLTs a wide range of experiences and opportunities to develop skills in various settings and with different adult client groups. Joining the rotation programme will help to develop a strong understanding of the patient pathway, a unique and versatile skill set and encourage partnership working and clinical interests.

Each successful candidate will be employed by one of the four core services. You will be working with each service for a 9 month period before moving to your next rotational placement. All roles are permanent and at the end of your rotation you will return to your original place of employment. The four services offering the rotational posts are:

Acute adult acquired disorders inpatient setting (Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) 

 Community Intellectual Disabilities Team (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust) 

Adult Acquired disorders community team (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust) 

Rampton High Secure Hospital (Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust) 

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role vary depending on where you are in your rotation. Your will be focusing on an adult population in acute inpatient, high secure forensic services, and community acquired and ASD/ intellectual disability settings. Although the contexts differ, common duties are:

Assessment and formulation of the individual’s speech, language, communication, and dysphagia needs.
Developing advice & recommendations to enable others to care effectively for the individual.
Producing written advice and recommendation for a variety of audiences and develop inclusive communication documents relevant to your caseload.
Being involved in intervention relevant to your case load and deliver training for others to implement inclusive communication environments and safe and healthy mealtimes.
Working with families and carers in an inclusive manner.
Working collaboratively with your Speech & Language Therapy and multidisciplinary colleagues on supporting the individual.
Represent your clients and your profession in multidisciplinary meetings and be involved in the formulation of the person’s needs.
Supporting your team to facilitate student placement where appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day.  We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.   We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.   We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC