Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Join our dedicated team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and lead our Speech and Language Therapy Stroke service with passion and expertise! This role will provide strategic and clinical leadership across our acute and rehabilitation Stroke Units and Integrated Community Stroke Service.

Why Join Us?

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidencebased practice
• Well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments relevant to specialist client group and extensive knowledge of a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions
• Proven application of current theories and practices on rehabilitation
• Highly developed specialist skills related to dysphagia management
• Evidence of strong commitment to team and partnership working, and leadership skills
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency
• Demonstrates flexibility of working and appropriate understanding of roles within a team
• Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Knowledge of current Department of Health policies

Well-established knowledge of national policies, guidelines and procedures related to client group

Demonstrates an understanding of Speech and Language Therapy services in the context of the wider NHS structure

Established organizational skills and experience of caseload management in rehabilitation.

Proven effective communication skills

Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills

Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.

Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives.

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification.
• Additional postgraduate training up to master's degree equivalent.
• Health and Care Professions Council - License to Practice
• Registered member of RCSLT
• Post-graduate experience in specialist area

Desirable

• Masters Degree

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates experience of working with this specialist client group.
• Experience of service planning, project management.
• Experience of working in the acute setting

Desirable

• Advanced post-graduate training in dysphagia
• FEES/VF competency
• Tracheostomy competency

About the employer

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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