Speech and Language Therapist-Community Stroke Service

Job summary

This post is only open to current employees of the Trust.

We are passionate about stroke and improving the quality of life for our stroke survivors. The Stroke Quality Improvement for Rehabilitation (SQuIRe) Project and significant funding from NHSE has enabled us to expand our team and start fully implementing the National Model for Integrated Community Stroke Services. This is an exciting opportunity to significantly enhance our service, supporting all stroke survivors in Worcestershire.

The job would be to work 22.5hrs over 3 days alongside your SLT colleagues, covering the Integrated Community Stroke Service within Worcestershire. We support flexible working, and the Trust is excellent in supporting well-being.

The ability to use your initiative, work proactively, demonstrate excellent communication and influencing skills, work within a team, manage and prioritise your own workload and respond flexibly to changing demands are essential requirements of the post.

As a trust we offer a robust induction period and continue to promote opportunities for development through 1:1 supervision session, peer working and in-service training.

Main duties of the job

Day to day, with your SLT colleagues, you will be undertaking comprehensive assessments and treatment of stroke patients with speech, language, voice, fluency and/or swallowing disorders. This will be for inpatients and the community setting. You will formulate individual programmes of rehabilitation using clinical reasoning and utilise a range of treatment skills, targeting realistic and measurable, patient-led goals. It is also expected that you will offer support and education to carers/families and the wider team.

You will input into the weekly MDTs in which the team will discuss the progress of patients and identify goals that are achieved and ongoing. You will also need skills in advising, educating, skills in motivating and counselling and providing patient-centred care.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Evesham Community Hospital

Waterside

Evesham

Worcestershire

WR11 1JT

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Evesham Community Hospital

Waterside

Evesham

Worcestershire

WR11 1JT

Employer's website

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

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