Basic Grade Speech & Language Therapist

at  Beaumont Hospital

POSITION SUMMARY:

The post holder will be responsible for providing a speech and language therapy service to patients attending Beaumont Hospital, incorporating the St Joseph’s Hospital campus. The successful candidate will be part of the well-structured, multi-speciality Beaumont Hospital SLT team with excellent support and opportunities for CPD. The service has some current vacancies to fill immediately and a short panel will be created from this competition for future specified purpose contracts.
Responsibilities:

EDUCATIONAL

• To participate in the education of medical, nursing, other health & social care professionals and front line staff as appropriate.
• To attend in-service training and other relevant CPD meetings (e.g journal club) as required.
• To participate in the practice education of SLT students with support from other SLTs and the Practice Tutor.
• To be involved in the education of staff and other relevant people on ways to support communication and to promote safe swallowing.
• To maintain continuous professional development in line with recommendations laid down by the professional body and regulator.

OTHER

• To participate in Personal Development Planning, Professional Supervision and Peer Review as required.
• To participate in quality improvement and other projects as appropriate.
• To adhere to health & safety, hygiene, infection control and other hospital guidelines.
• To undertake other duties as may be required by the Speech & Language Therapist Manager.
• This job description is not restrictive and may be reviewed in the light of changing needs within services.
  Qualifications:

EDUCATION & REGISTRATION:

• Is registered with the Speech and Language Therapists registration board with CORU (details must be included on CV)

or

• Is qualifying from Trinity College, University of Limerick, National university of Galway and University College Cork in 2023 as a speech and language therapist and has submitted an application for registration with the speech and language therapy registration board with CORU.