Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

Band 6 Royal Hampshire County Hospital Winchester

We have a fantastic opportunity for an energetic and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist who is dysphagia trained, to become part of the experienced and friendly Speech and Language Therapy team that provides care to adult patients at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital Winchester. Our team is committed to providing a high-quality service and we embrace change.

Speech and Language Therapy has a high profile within the acute hospital and multidisciplinary teams, and it is seen as an essential part of the collaborative working approach to provide a quality and timely service to patients.

Within the skill mix of staff providing acute and community care, we have a range of clinical leads and specialists who foster and support a varied learning environment. This post would be providing care at the acute stage of the patient pathway, across general medical, critical care and elderly care wards. There is daily access to senior therapists for support and regular scheduled supervision.

The Speech and Language Therapy team run both Video fluoroscopy and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing (FEES ) services which you will have an opportunity to gain experience in.

We work very closely with our inpatient colleagues at the North Hampshire Hospital Basingstoke and our community colleagues to provide a seamless service for our patients. Opportunities to work within these areas can be explored.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist inpatient Speech & Language Therapy Service to adults with acquired communication and eating, drinking and swallowing (EDS) disorders covering all hospital wards including critical care.
• To work as an autonomous practitioner, in partnership with patients, carers and other healthcare professionals in order to deliver integrated specialised packages of care to adults with acquired communication and EDS difficulties.

• There will be close team working with the Basingstoke North Hampshire Hospital acute team BNH and the community team and cross-site working may be required at times for equity of service and seamless transfer of care.

• To supervise and train Speech and Language Therapy students, other healthcare professionals and staff from other agencies, who work with adults with acquired communication and EDS difficulties.
• To provide general support and mentorship to less experienced Speech and Language Therapy colleagues working within the adult service.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.