Band 7 Specialist Stroke SLT

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding speech and language therapy care in the acute hospital setting? Are you keen to help lead a team of specialist SLT's and work collaboratively within wider MDT settings? If so, we'd love to hear from you., Due to internal reconfiguration we have an exciting opportunity at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to appoint a Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist to join our dynamic and expanding Speech & Language Therapy team. Full-time and part-time positions are available, and we are open to discuss flexible working arrangements., You should be able to work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner within the field of stroke / rehabilitation and conditions impacting communication and swallowing. Alongside this you will provide direct line management to the team. Evidence of strong organisational, communication and leadership skills are essential to compliment your advanced speech and language therapy knowledge and skills. You should be passionate about providing effective patient centered care, as well highly enthusiastic about service development of stroke services.

This is a new exciting opportunity to work within the friendly and supportive Adult Speech and Language Therapy service, assisting in the lead of the stroke SLT services based at Birmingham Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital. This post will be supporting the restoration and recovery of the clinical stroke pathway following the pandemic, including ESD service. You will be welcomed into a large and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system. You will have the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist staff and have access to regular videofluoroscopy & FEES clinics.

This post includes participation in the weekend service for inpatients across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust is a great place to work offering a working environment with an inclusive culture that looks after and values our people and creates a sense of belonging. The trust is based in the vibrant city of Birmingham, now covering four busy hospital sites and a community service., We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.