JOB OVERVIEW

Looking for a fresh challenge? We are recruiting for our inpatient services in the forward-thinking SALT team at Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, in the beautiful Weald of Kent. This will be based at either Tunbridge Wells Hospital or Maidstone Hospital to help deliver specialist speech and language therapy to expanding intensive care units, as well as the general acute caseload on the medical, respiratory, cardiac, gastroenterology, frailty units and care of the elderly wards.

We are seeking someone who is proactive with a special interest in the acute setting to progress in our dynamic acute adult inpatient service based at Tunbridge Wells and Maidstone hospitals. You will be offered a comprehensive program of continuing professional development and will contribute to continuous quality improvement.
We are a team of 20 speech and language therapists and 5 assistants, and a mouthcare matters lead nurse. Our ITU in Tunbridge Wells is proud to be the first unit in the UK to gain HU-CI Certification of Good Practices in the Humanisation of Intensive Care. We are also proactively involved in research as official recruiters for the PLORAS and PhEAST trials