Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute and Outpatients

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust's Speech and Language Therapy department boasts a critical care SLT service, specialist FEES service, as well as an outpatient team providing domiciliary visits and clinics within the locality. We are recruiting an enthusiastic, innovative, experienced SLT to join our team working across acute and outpatient teams. You will work as part of a supportive MDT delivering a service to inpatients and outpatients with a range of acquired communication and swallowing difficulties. It will also involve working closely with the Trust's multidisciplinary Nutritional Support Team, attending weekly meetings and ward rounds. The successful applicant will have established skills in dysphagia. Skills and experience in videofluoroscopy, knowledge of tracheostomy patients and FEES are desirable but not essential. Training opportunities are available when determined by the successful candidate's skill set. The candidate will have excellent communication skills and be able to demonstrate an adaptable approach whilst meeting guidelines and standards. You will receive monthly supervision. You will also be responsible for supervising junior SLTs and Assistants. There will be opportunity to contribute towards and receive in-service training as well as other CPD opportunities. This post will include 5 working days, flexible over a 7 day working rota. Where weekend working is involved an enhanced rate of pay is received.Main duties of the job To provide a safe, effective and consistently high quality Speech and Language Therapy service at Stockport Foundation Trust. Manage a delegated caseload within the specialist area of a community caseload and acute hospital wards, including medical, surgical, trauma and orthopaedic and frailty wards. To assess, plan and implement patient centred, evidence-based interventions To provide evidence-based care, education and information to patients, carers and health care professionals in a hospital and outpatient and community setting. Contribute to the training and development of Speech and Language Therapy students, as well as supervising and supporting Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Assistants. To support and develop the Speech and Language Therapy service within specialist clinical areas

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service. Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice