Adult Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Job summary

A vacancy has arisen for a Band 3 Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Assistant to join the Adult Community SLT Team in Solent East. The service provides assessment and clinical interventions to patients with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties; these include people with Stroke, Parkinson's disease and other progressive neurological conditions, dementia, learning disability, voice and dysfluency. These interventions are delivered both face-to-face and using telehealth virtual platforms.

The successful candidate will join a friendly, dynamic and professional team and will be required to work with patients under the supervision and guidance of a qualified SLT. You will be implementing programmes of care for individuals and groups with communication difficulties.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual to work with people with acquired communication difficulties, who has a proven ability to work on their own and within a team. You will have strong communication, organisation and IT skills and a flexible approach to ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients as part of their healthcare journey. A knowledge of and commitment to the principles of the Equality Act and promoting diversity is required.

Previous experience of working with people with communication difficulties is preferred, however training will be provided for the right candidate.

For this post you will need to hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a car.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and administrative support to the adult Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service, working with patients with a range of acquired communication difficulties.

To work with clients under the supervision and guidance of a qualified SLT implementing programmes of care for individuals and groups with acquired speech / language and communication difficulties. This will include people with Stroke, Parkinson's disease, Motor Neurone Disease and other progressive conditions and dementia

To create and develop communication aid and therapy tools and resources as requested by the SLT team

To maintain the Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) equipment / resource bank held in the SLT department Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.