Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

We have recently launched a brand-new community Speech & Language Therapy service, and we're looking for a Band 7 SLT to join our team on a 30 hour per week, fixed term contract for six months.

You'll support people in their own homes, care homes and outpatient settings across the South and southwest of Hampshire. Our patients include those recovering from strokes, people living with Parkinson's disease or dementia, and frail or older individuals who need support with communication or swallowing.

Your role will involve development of this new service, carrying out assessments, developing care plans to improve safety, independence, and quality of life, and you'll work with colleagues to ensure that care is delivered where it's needed most.

You'll provide clinical guidance within the team, supporting junior colleagues and contributing to multidisciplinary working. You'll also have access to career progression opportunities, structured training, competency signoffs and CPD to help you continue to grow.

This is a Monday to Friday service with no weekend, nights or on-call work. From day one, you'll benefit from our NHS Pension Scheme, 27 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, car leasing and cycle-to-work schemes, as well as NHS discounts on shopping, travel and leisure.

If you're ready to take the next step in your SLT career, with a drive to help shape a new service, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

*To provide a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy Service to a caseload including those with complex needs within area of speciality requiring highly specialist clinical knowledge and expertise.

*To work as an autonomous practitioner providing highly specialist assessments, diagnosis and management of patients with swallowing and communication disorders and determine profession specific and multidisciplinary rehabilitation interventions.

*To collaborate and liaise with MDT colleagues to provide co-ordinated care to clients in the community setting.

*To contribute to the prioritisation and triage of referrals to ensure that priority, high risk, clients are seen urgently, following locally devised systems / timescales

*To support the SLT Professional Lead and Matron, deputising when required.

*To provide a lead role across the service and trust within specialist area, working with Team/locality and care pathway leads, Professional Lead for Adult SLT and other specialist colleagues, providing clinical leadership, driving forward service development, maintaining standards and ensuring the provision of up-to-date evidence-based care.

*To provide leadership for developing and evaluating the service.

*To be a source of expertise and support to colleagues across the service and work with other statutory and independent agencies to ensure a holistic approach to client management.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Western Community Hospital

Walnut Grove

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4XE

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Western Community Hospital

Walnut Grove

Southampton

Hampshire

SO16 4XE

Employer's website

https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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