Speech and Language Therapist - Southend
The closing date is 26 August 2025
Job summary
We are looking for a Band 5 Rotational Speech & Language Therapist to join our Adult Acute Wards / Stroke on a part-time basis.
The Speech & Language Therapy team at Southend Hospital have a long history of developing Band 5 therapists to be confident, effective and skilled practitioners.
We would like to offer you the opportunity to share in this history and develop skills learnt in university and placements/first posts to complete your NQT competencies. This includes proactive training and supervision in dysphagia management, and as your confidence and skillset increases we actively support exposure to FEES, and have plans for videofluoroscopy observation.
With a strong ethos in evidence based practice and supportive patient intervention, the team works across acute and stroke wards to provide excellent patient intervention and therapy within the acute phase of their illness. We foster good links with our community colleagues to ensure seamless care for patients who may need continuing care post discharge.
The team is friendly and caring of each other as well as the patients, and we welcome fresh ideas and are proactive in looking at new assessment/treatment options as research grows within the speech & language therapy community as a whole.
So, if this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply today.
Main duties of the job
We are a very friendly Speech & Language Therapy team who seek to enable all staff to progress to their maximum potential, and to support their colleagues to do the same.
The main responsibilities of the Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist are
- To develop skills with an adult acute caseload in communication and dysphagia assessment and management
- To develop all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
- To attend clinical supervision in the form of regular face to face meetings with your supervisor, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and team case discussions
- To provide supervision and education of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and Speech and Language Therapy students
- To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team's clinical practice
- To participate in clinical audit, protocol development, objective-setting etc as required by the development of the SALT team
About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust
Details
Date posted
12 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for part time)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
390-CSS-SO-9798
Job locations
Southend
Prittlewell Chase
Southend on Sea
SS0 0RY
Employer details
Employer name
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Southend
Prittlewell Chase
Southend on Sea
SS0 0RY
Employer's website
https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Lead for Speech and Language Therapy
Hayley Forrest
Hayley.Forrest@southend.nhs.uk
01702435555
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