Specialist Speech and Language Therapist: Dysphagia

We are offering an opportunity to join our Speech and Language Therapy service in Ipswich and East Suffolk, working as a specialist speech and language therapist with dysphagia across inpatient and community settings. This is a fixed term part time vacancy (30 hours) to cover maternity leave. The contract will be from 1st March 2025 until 31st July 2025.

You will support individuals with swallowing difficulties, including those with complex needs. You will supervise and line manage staff, and will be required to contribute to our instrumental assessment provision, including videofluoroscopy and FEES.

The integrated SLT service in East Suffolk delivers inpatient, outpatient and community services., Our team supports people who have a range of conditions including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, head and neck cancer, voice disorders, dementia, respiratory conditions, and frailty. We also offer a countywide service to adults with learning disability. We are a friendly team, and share expertise across the teams with our populations at the centre of service delivery. Our department sits within the Integrated Therapies division and therefore have excellent links to our MDT colleagues, including shared CPD opportunities. All teams are supported by our SLT apprentices and assistants., This service champions research, innovation and development. We are proud to be supporting two team members who are undertaking a pre-doctoral fellowship and Masters in Research. The service lead and member of the team were recently 'highly commended' in the Research Impact category of the CAHPO awards for a research project that they published using clinical data. The team are actively engaged in service improvement projects including the use of EMST, reviewing respiratory pathways and looking at service redesign. The Trust is committed to developing leadership skills for staff at all levels.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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