Community Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

Are you looking for a role where your clinical expertise genuinely makes a difference?

Join a service where compassion, collaboration and professional growth are truly valued.Our Community Adult Speech & Language Therapy Team offers the opportunity to work with a diverse and rewarding caseload, shape community practice, and be part of a supportive team that prioritises your ideas, your wellbeing, and your development.

We are looking for a motivated Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to work across the Wakefield and district community, delivering high quality care for adults with communication and swallowing needs.

You will work across a range of settings including patients homes, nursing and residential care, and outpatient clinics. You will manage a varied, clinically rewarding caseload, including stroke, brain injury, progressive neurological conditions, dementia, and respiratory presentations. You will join a skilled and welcoming team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care.

If you enjoy autonomous working, varied clinical presentations, and the opportunity to build meaningful therapeutic relationships in community settings, this could be the perfect next step for you. Prospective applicants are warmly invited to visit the team.

The Adult SLT service at Mid Yorkshire is dynamic, supportive and committed to highquality care.

Main duties of the job

The role will involve working in a community setting to provide a high-quality service for our patients who have swallow and communication difficulties. Therefore effective independent caseload management skills, experience and knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with stroke, brain injury, progressive neuro, dementia, and respiratory presentations etc. are required.

The post holder will work flexibly as required to maintain a responsive, patient centred and evidence-based service for optimal patient outcomes.

You will support and work with the Service Lead, Team Lead and Clinical Leads for Adult Speech and Language Therapy to enable us to deliver a comprehensive service to adults with a range of disorders of communication and swallowing.

You will be delivering training and education to patient, carers and third parties.

To liaise closely with colleagues in the acute and community settings to facilitate the smooth transfer of care, to contribute to schemes supporting early discharge from hospital and reducing unscheduled admissions to hospital.

To supervise, support and provide clinical education as required to less experienced Speech and Language Therapists, students, and assistants.

To lead relevant projects for the SLT service.

Excellent inter-personal, communication, motivational, emerging leadership and team working skills are important components of how we work, in addition to our clinical skills.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Address

Trust-wide

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF1 4DG

Employer's website

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

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