Speech and Language Therapist

at  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you looking for your next opportunity to develop specialist dysphagia and communication skills with a varied, medical and surgical caseload?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Band 5 speech and language therapist (SLT) with established dysphagia skills who has a passion to work with patients across the medical and surgical pathways.
This amazing post provides opportunities to develop further specialist skills in an area of your own personal interest and enable you to progress towards becoming a Band 6 specialist SLT!
You will gain experience working across emergency medicine, respiratory medicine, enhance high care, gastroenterology, vascular and orthopaedic surgery, elderly medicine, acute frailty, admission avoidance and critical care step down pathways. This varied and exciting post will then facilitate your progression to becoming a Specialist Band 6 SLT
You will thrive working with different MDTs to deliver holistic patient care as well as partake in quality improvement projects to review and improve service delivery. You are required to have established skills in dysphagia management, working towards RCSLT level B competencies in addition to having the skills to support the communication needs of patients in an acute setting. You will be able to demonstrate prioritisation and problem solving skills and work flexibly and responsively to the changing service needs involved in cross site working with support from the medical/surgical clinical leads.
The Speech and Language therapy team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a large, friendly and innovative team comprised of 30 staff and is part of Integrated Nutrition and Communication Services which includes the Department of Dietetics and The Nutrition Nurse Team. You will gain exposure to videofluoroscopy and FEES and have excellent clinical supervision from senior SLTs as well as opportunities for peer supervision. We place a strong focus on evidence-based practice, CPD, appraisal and training opportunities which will support your progression and development into a Band 6 SLT role.
We excited about the possibilities this role can bring.
For further information please contact Carmel Richardson, Acting Head of Speech and Language Therapy on 01772 522426 or carmel.richardson@lthtr.nhs.uk
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals has a large inpatient and outpatient service and provides tertiary services and comprehensive care to the Lancashire and South Cumbria region. We are a dedicated SLT service with excellent patient-centred care at the core of our values and we provide a wide range of specialist services. We are keen to promote training opportunities and support CPD. You will join a large, friendly team of speech and language therapists covering a range of specialist services.
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
To integrate with the multidisciplinary teams and contribute to training and education and quality improvement projects as appropriate with support from clinical leads.
To demonstrate excellent organisational and prioritisation skills and a flexible approach to work practice.
To maintain clinical professional development and be up to date with research and advancements within this clinical area.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
For further details / informal visits contact: Contact Carmel Richardson, Acting Head of Speech and Language Therapy carmel.richardson@lthtr.nhs.uk on 01772 522426
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Please refer the Job description for details