Speech and Language Therapist - Intermediate Care

The vacancy is for the Band 6 Speech and Language Therapy Lead for a large intermediate care team based at Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust. You will see patients with a variety of impairments, working closely with your therapist colleagues and other team members within the Integrated Independence Team, mainly with Home Treatment and Reablement but also with Rapid Response and the Virtual Frailty Ward as the service requires. The Integrated Independence Team (IIT) is an integrated health and social care service provided jointly by Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust and London Borough of Hackney. The service places the user at the heart of the care planning process, and aims to promote independence, deliver outcome focused care, and provide a seamless journey through the care system. We are an innovative, exciting, friendly and supportive team, with various sub-teams coming under the umbrella of IIT - such as Rapid Response, Home Treatment and Reablement Team, Virtual Frailty Ward and Rapid Care., The post holder will be responsible for:

• The specialist assessment and intervention to a designated caseload of service users with communication and / or swallowing difficulties in community settings.
• Clinical supervision and appraisal to assistants and students as required
• Participate in ongoing service evaluation and development
  
  The Integrated Independence Team is a large, multi-faceted, dynamic intermediate care team. Our subteams include Rapid Response, Home Treatment Team, Discharge to Assess, Virtual Frailty Ward and Paradoc. The successful post holder will provide intervention across the pathway.
We sit within Homerton Healthcare NHS Trust. The Trust is currently rated Good by the CQC but Homerton University Hospital is rated 'Outstanding'. Additionally, Our Urgent and Emergency services are rated Outstanding and have been on succesive inspections and our Medical care including older people's care is also Outstanding. All other ratings are good including services for children and young people, critical care, end of life care, maternity, outpatients and diagnostic imaging, Mary Seacole Nursing Home and surgery. These ratings are a testament to the efforts of all our staff. The CQC is witness to the fact we workvery hard to provide the highest standard of care for our patients and maintaining an excellent environment for our staff. The Trust offers excellent training and support and recently featured on the HSJ and Nursing Times Best Places to Work list. In addition we have earned the Healthy Workplace Charter 'Excellence' rating. Building on that our stated aim to be the NHS employer of choice by 2023.