Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Community Neurology

Job summary

Are you ready for a new challenge? Are you a compassionate leader, enthusiastic, highly motivated and passionate about high quality care? If so then, a great opportunity has arisen for a proactive, enthusiastic and forward thinking leader to join our team!

An exciting opportunity for Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist in neurology has become available in Dudley Rehabilitation Service. The post holder will be the lead speech therapist in the community Neurology pathway and to jointly lead the speech therapists within Dudley Rehabilitation Service.

Full time opportunities may become available in the future.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the lead speech therapist in the community Neurology pathway and to jointly lead the speech therapists within Dudley Rehabilitation Service.

They will be an expert resource in the provision of evidence based assessment and care for the management of patients with long term neurological conditions, working alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide an effective and efficient service.

They will provide highly specialist SLT in outpatient and domiciliary settings to caseload of complex neurology patients and provide specialist training, advice and support to colleagues, patients and their carers about progressive neurological conditions.

They will work collaboratively with the inpatient speech therapy service in Dudley to ensure a seamless transition of care. To be involved in evaluation and audits to help develop DRS and the speech therapy provision in Dudley.

They will be an independent practitioner managing a caseload of patients including those with complex needs, carrying out assessments, therapy, and evaluation of intervention

About us

At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.

We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.

We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible.