Specialist Speech & Lanaguage Therapist

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

The closing date is 25 March 2025

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced therapist to join our friendly and supportive team to provide Maternity Leave cover and play an integral part in delivery of the community service in the North of the County.

You will work within the community Team in local clinics providing Specialist Speech & Language Therapy to our services users, in clinics, Care homes or their own homes.

You will have the ability to work on your own initiative yet thrive as a valued member of a of the community team and wider countywide team. You will possess excellent interpersonal and team-working skills and approach your work with energy and enthusiasm.

You will be supported to continue to develop and demonstrate leadership behaviours as you are encouraged to actively contribute to the ongoing development of the service. You will be expected to provide mentorship support to colleagues, SLT Assistant Practitioners and students.

Dysphagia experience is essential.

This post involves working as part of the Countywide team as well and having a flexible approach to service delivery.

Main duties of the job

To assess, develop and implement specialist speech and language therapy treatment to outpatient adults with swallowing and speech and language disorders (non-complex cases) .

To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.

To use clinical skills to generate written reports reflecting specialist knowledge.

To provide advice to others regarding the management and care of patients with speech and language and/or swallowing disorders (non-complex).

To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness, adapting and facilitating according to perceived client needs, including cultural and linguistic differences.

To manage and prioritise own workload, developing clear treatments plans based on best practice.

To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To use skills to general appropriate strategies for caseload management for complex clinical issues.

To work collaboratively with clients, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the patient/client management, across a variety of locations and agencies.

To demonstrate and use specialist knowledge and skills to analyse complex issues in order to inform clinical judgements/decision making for caseload management and to design appropriate treatment from a range of options.

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

11 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

270-TF890-ACS

Job locations

St. Marys Hospital

London Road

Kettering

NN15 7PW

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree in Speech & Language Therapy
Dysphagia training and experience

Desirable

Membership to CEN

Skills

Essential

Excellent interpersonal skills: Able to listen well and counsel patients and carers.Able to demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues.
Able to communicate effectively, particularly where barriers to understand exist.
Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills.
Able to organise work load and manage time.

Desirable

oKnowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to client group

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree in Speech & Language Therapy
Dysphagia training and experience

Desirable

Membership to CEN

Skills

Essential

Excellent interpersonal skills: Able to listen well and counsel patients and carers.Able to demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues.
Able to communicate effectively, particularly where barriers to understand exist.
Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills.
Able to organise work load and manage time.

Desirable

oKnowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to client group

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.