Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist has arisen to join the Sheffield Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service working in community within the Community Stroke Service MDT. The successful candidate will be part of a supportive and progressive team that values research and service improvement to work with patients and teams. They will provide highly specialist Speech and Language assessment, therapy and support to a highly complex caseload of adults referred into the Community Stroke Service. The successful post holder will provide clinical Speech & Language Therapy and be part of the SLT stroke pathway team. The SLT service across both the acute and community teams in STH has approximately 55 staff (47 therapists, 7 assistants and 4 secretarial staff) (41.23wte). The SLT teams are highly motivated to provide a quality service to their patients, they are research active and embrace innovation. The service has established processes for supervision and supports personal and professional development.

• Attained a level of experience proportionate to the competencies detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification, which would normally entail extensive postgraduate experience.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
• Registration with the Health Care Professions Council and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
  
  You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
  
  £46,148 to £52,809 a year pa/pro rata for part time staff