Job summary
Are you looking for your first post or looking to grow your foundation skills working with adults across a range of settings and specialties?
At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, the Speech and Language Therapy Service is excited to recruit an additional band 5 rotational therapist into our team at a time of considerable and exciting change as the trust works towards its move to the state of the art Midland Metropolitan University Hospital .
In our team, we focus on:
- Setting our goals around what matters to the patient
- Identifying vulnerable patients early on for intervention
- Being visible and integrated within our MDTs
Main duties of the job
An enthusiasm to work with an adult caseload is vital and undergraduate knowledge and experience with a range of acquired communication, voice and swallowing disorders in an acute hospital or community placement will be essential. A successful candidate will be joining an SLT team with a strong commitment to integrated working and quality improvement. There will be excellent training and development opportunities, scope to lead in areas of service development, as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system. You will have the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist staff and integrate into a variety of specialist multi-disciplinary teams, both in the acute hospital and community setting.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve life
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for details regarding the main roles and responsibilities of this post.
The trust provides a range of 7-day services, some involving our Speech and Language Therapists. Post-holders will be required to participate in these services when an appropriate level of clinical competence has been achieved.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for details regarding the main roles and responsibilities of this post.
The trust provides a range of 7-day services, some involving our Speech and Language Therapists. Post-holders will be required to participate in these services when an appropriate level of clinical competence has been achieved.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree qualification in Speech and Language Therapy and/or Masters post graduate qualification
- HCPC Registration
- Registered with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Experience
Essential
- Broad, applicable SLT clinical experience at undergraduate or post graduate level
- Experience of working as part of a Speech and Language Therapy and multi-disciplinary team
- Placement or work based experience with SLT adult caseload
Desirable
- Some understanding of the workings of community Therapy services & intermediate care services
- Involvement in audit & research
- Additional experience outside SLT relevant to client group eg nursing/care
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree qualification in Speech and Language Therapy and/or Masters post graduate qualification
- HCPC Registration
- Registered with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Experience
Essential
- Broad, applicable SLT clinical experience at undergraduate or post graduate level
- Experience of working as part of a Speech and Language Therapy and multi-disciplinary team
- Placement or work based experience with SLT adult caseload
Desirable
- Some understanding of the workings of community Therapy services & intermediate care services
- Involvement in audit & research
- Additional experience outside SLT relevant to client group eg nursing/care
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
