Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
£44962
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, City Centre, Manchester
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 week ago, 20 Sep | Get your application in now before you're too late!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 7ba0cdaa88f14b42a3c972e119756664
Full Job Description
- To provide an efficient and high quality specialised speech & language therapy service for patients on the acute wards and to those with a Head and Neck (H&N) cancer diagnosis who may be inpatients or outpatients.
- To supervise recently qualified speech & language therapists, assistants and students.
- To participate in Continuing Professional Development, clinical audit and in service training.
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of their professional and clinical work, working to agreed national and professional standards
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.