Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

We are excited to share the opportunity for this new post within our adult SALT team.

You will have a unique opportunity to work across both the acute and community SALT teams in a dynamic way to aid admission avoidance and assist with patients being recently discharged.

Your clinical cohort will be wide and extensive, including frailty, dementia, neuro-oncology, respiratory and progressive neurological conditions. You will be managing both swallowing and communication difficulties.

The team has excellent liaison with key MDTs, third sector organisations and the University of Essex. Our acute and community teams are very friendly and supportive and promote CPD, regular supervision and have decades of collective experience.

You will actively be engaged with the SLT team in ongoing service improvement to provide quality and efficient patient care. We have several other interesting projects underway including the promotion of patient education videos on YouTube, electrical stimulation for dysphagia management, developing FND MDT pathways and are forward thinking in our service delivery.

So if you already have your 'dysphagia wings' and are a car driver and have the ability to tackle both inreach and outreach style working then we would be very happy to meet you at interview, which is presently planned for the 27/3/26.

• Provide assessment, differential diagnosis, appropriate intervention and discharge for adults with acquired speech, language and communication disorders and dysphagia
• Provide training in specialty areas for carers, other professionals and volunteers and those involved in the care of people referred to the service.
• Provide leadership to junior staff
• Actively clinically prioritise and assist with managing the caseload and advise senior team re capacity and demand
• Attend and liaise with relevant MDTs, e.g. Regional Networks and external agencies to ensure a quality and effective service for clinical caseload
  
  

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variet

y of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ruth Myers Job title: Professional Lead Email address: ruth.myers@esneft.nhs.uk

Candidates are welcome to request an informal chat with the Professional Lead and or colleagues for further detail about the role