Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a speech and language therapist to gain experience working with an adult caseload in the acute setting, both on the general wards and stroke rehabilitation ward at Wexham Park Hospital.

You will join a very friendly team of Speech and Language therapists over 3 hospital sites. This position is based at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. Our core hours are Monday-Friday 08:00 to 16:00.

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.

At Frimley Trust we provide a supportive transition to the workplace, through a 12-month Multi-professional Preceptorship program run by our clinical education directorate in collaboration with our Therapies department. This provides protected training, supervision, networking and education to enable our staff to reach their full potential and adjust well into their new working environment. Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

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

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital servicesforaround 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 threecore 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,WorkingTogether 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.

Job description

Job 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

• 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

• Level C Dysphagia competencies
• Knowledge of relevant assessment tools
• Car driver

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written application

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of Clinical governance/standards of record keeping/audit

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).