Band 7 Speech and Language Therapy Team Leader - Outpatients

Would you like to provide Speech and Language Therapy to people with swallowing and communication difficulties? Would you like experience in leading a team? Due to maternity leave we have an opportunity for you to be an integral part of an established outpatient SLT team.

We have a large yet close-knit, highly skilled team who contribute to our robust supervision structure Innovation, participation in research and clinical/professional development are actively encouraged. We have well-established SLT led Videofluoroscopy and FEES services so opportunities to access these instrumental assessments to help to shape your clinical practice would also be available.

The team offers:

• A full induction programme, robust supervision, regular team meetings & peer support, The successful candidate will have a clear passion in assessing and managing swallowing and communication disorders for patients within neurology, neurosurgery, respiratory, medicine and specialist surgery caseloads. Your responsibilities will include, but not be limited to
  
  We have a large team who share a caseload of diverse patient cohorts so being a team player is essential.
  
  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.