Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to expand our enthusiastic and driven service. We are looking for motivated band 5 therapists to join our forward-thinking and supportive team due to internal re-structuring.

This vacancy is for a spilt post across our community and acute teams. Our community team covers the whole of Lincolnshire and we are now providing a 6 day service across our acute settings of Pilgrim Hospital, Boston and Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln. Your base and the configuration of sessions can be discussed at interview according to your location.

We would be happy to accept applications from individuals who are due to pending registration/due to qualify in the near future and start dates can be negotiated accordingly, please contact the persons below if you have any queries around this.

Main duties of the job

o To assess, diagnose and treat clients with speech, language, communication and/ or eating/ drinking/ swallowing difficulties.

o To provide a clinical service to a designated caseload, in a location most suited to meeting the client's needs.

o Specific responsibility for a designated caseload, reflecting specialist knowledge and working to defined service protocols.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev