Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-RO46
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £29,828 - £36,311 Per annum including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/07/2024
Employer heading
Speech and Language Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a therapist to gain experience working with an adult caseload in the acute setting, both on the general wards and stroke unit at Wexham Park Hospital.
You will join a very friendly team of Speech and Language therapists over 3 hospital sites. Our core hours are Monday-Friday.
We offer comprehensive dysphagia training to enable you to achieve your competencies as well as senior staff on hand for support on a daily basis.
We are committed to supporting your CPD and as a department we have regular team meetings and clinical discussion forums as well as strong links with community teams. After a year of postgraduate practice you will have the opportunity to attend the relevant training and then support students from the University of Reading on clinical placement.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve assessment, diagnosis and management of the communication and swallowing disorders of inpatients on the general wards as well as those on the stroke unit.
See the attached job description and person specification for further details
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding duties, responsibilities and key relationships for this role
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant SLT qualification
- HPC Registration (or applied for/pending if results not known)
- Evidence of organisation/problem solving/prioritisation skills
- Empathy and client centred focus
- Undergraduate experience of acute sector working
- Application demonstrates a particular enthusiasm for adult caseload
- Collaborative team approach to working
Desirable criteria
- Level C Dysphagia competencies
- Knowledge of relevant assessment tools
- Car driver
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written application
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Clinical governance/standards of record keeping/audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hardeep Bajaj
- Job title
- Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 615 4619
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