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NB: This vacancy closed to applications on 28/01/2021.

Specialist SLT (Stroke and acute inpatients)

Job Reference: 365-A-20-144597

Employer:
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Department:
Speech And Language Therapy
Location:
Worcester Royal Hospital
Salary:
£ 31,365 - £37,890 per annum (pro rata)

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

We’re a large organisation, providing acute services from the Alexandra Hospital (Redditch), Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre and Worcestershire Royal Hospital (Worcester) to a population of over 575,000 people in Worcestershire, as well as caring for patients from surrounding counties and further afield. We also manage a Surgery ward at Evesham Community Hospital.

Our workforce is nearly 6,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

It’s an exciting time to join the Trust. In partnership with staff, patients and partners, we are developing of our Clinical Services Strategy which will outline how our services will be organised effectively across our sites into the future. Our Clinical Services Strategy will build on the improvements already put in place in recent years, following the Future of Acute Hospital Services in Worcestershire review which has seen improved outcomes in a number of areas, including maternity and children’s services.

Our objectives are simple:

  • Best services for local people

  • Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients

  • Best use of resources

  • Best people.

If you can help us to achieve these; if your vision matches our vision; and you believe in Putting Patients First, we would love to hear from you!

In return, we commit to investing in our staff to ensure that we retain and develop the right people, with the right skills, who care about and take pride in, putting patients first.

Do you have a passion for working in an acute hospital environment? Do you want to join a high quality, established team providingSpeech and Language Therapy services to both stroke and other acute inpatients in Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust as a specialist SLT?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist SLT to join our team at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust (Worcestershire Royal Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch) on a full time basis (part-time may be considered). We are a forward thinking and proactive SLT department made up of15 therapists and support workers working within specialty teams. The successful candidate will have a varied case-load, spending their time on the Acute Stroke unit and with general acute inpatients on both sites. There will be an opportunity for MDT working on stroke and there is good support available from Stroke Team Lead SLT and Inpatient Team Lead SLT.

If you have an interest or previous experience in working with Acute inpatients we are happy to discuss how we can help progress your specialist knowledge and skills.

We can offer you:

*A friendly and supportive team of colleagues, excellent peer support and regular clinical supervision, involvement in student training with students from Birmingham City University.

*We are committed to your personal development and CPD.

*Worcester is situated near major road and rail networks with easy access to Birmingham, Stratford-Upon-Avon, the Malvern Hills and the scenic Cotswold country.

As a department we have regular specialty and team meetings with a focus on quality improvement and maintaining CPD. If you would like to learn more about this post, please contact Becky Mpanza, Stroke Team Lead SLT or Sarah Empson, In Patient Team Lead SLTon 01905 760475 or email Rebecca.Mpanza@nhs.net or Sarah.Empson@nhs.net to discuss further or to arrange an informal visit.

 

 

 

 

 



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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is an equal opportunities employer and supports flexible working. We offer excellent learning and development opportunities, career progression, and are part of the NHS pension scheme. All of our sites are completely smokefree.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.


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Job Type:
Permanent
Working pattern:
• Full time
• Part time
• Flexitime
Pay Scheme:
Agenda for change
Pay Band:
6
Staff Group:
Allied Health Professionals
Specialty/Function:
Specialty Medicine

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This vacancy is now closed.
Closing Date:
28/01/2021
Contact Name:
Morag Inglis
Email Address:
morag.inglis1@nhs.net
Telephone:
01905 760475

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