Speech & Language Therapist

Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist passionate about providing Community Speech and Language Therapy Services for Adults with acquired swallowing, communication and voice problems? Are you keen to develop your specialist clinical skills? If so, we want you to be part of our team. We have a Band 6 permanent post available in our Speech and Language Therapy Team and are looking for an enthusiastic therapist to work within our team. We are a small, dedicated team providing patient-centred assessment, advice and treatment to adults across Coventry. We have excellent relationships with our Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy and Dietetic colleagues in our Planned Community Services, and work closely with specialist colleagues in the Parkinson's Disease and Motor Neurone Disease MDTs. We work alongside Ear Nose and Throat colleagues in our MDT Voice clinics and provide voice therapy for adults with benign voice disorders. We offer home visits, clinic-based appointments and attendance at the MDT clinics at UHCW across our dysphagia, communication, voice and dysfluency caseloads. There are opportunities for you to work across all of these caseloads to develop and advance your clinical skills with support from specialists in voice, dysphagia and dysfluency. We meet regularly as a team to support each other, manage our caseloads and learn from each other in order to offer the best possible assessment and treatment for our clients.,

• To provide specialist professional clinical management/supervision for our SLT team as an integral member of the Planned Community Therapy Leadership Team.
• To provide advanced speech and language therapy assessment treatments and review for patients referred into the service with acquired communication, voice and swallowing needs. This will be for patients predominantly in their place of residence but will include clinic and other settings.
• To provide expert advice and guidance to patients, carers, health and social care professionals from across multiple providers internal and external to the organisation.
• To be involved in identifying gaps in the service and assisting with service improvement and development in line with national and local strategies.
• To support and contribute toward service development and meeting Key Performance Indicators.
• To undertake and support specialist professional development of the staff within the service and across the Integrated Community Services as required.
  
  University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare. We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk) By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team. The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.