Speech and Language Therapist - Scunthorpe, United Kingdom - Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

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Scunthorpe, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you looking to begin your career as a Speech and Language Therapist working with adults with acquired disorders in acute and community settings? Or to further develop your existing skills within this area?

Are you looking to become part of an established, friendly, supportive and sociable team?

We have an opportunity for a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist to work within our team at Scunthorpe.

This post will give you the opportunity to work as part of our acute and community stroke team as well as provide input to more general caseloads with acute and community patients.

The caseload will involve rehabilitation for both swallowing and communication, therefore supervision and training towards the treatment of dysphagia will be offered.

The applicant will need to have access to transport and the ability to safely transport yourself and equipment around the required geographical area during the course of their working day.

To provide a high standard of Speech and Language Therapy service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.

To work as a member of the Speech and Language Therapy team to provide a comprehensive therapeutic service for inpatients and outpatients.

To manage a defined caseload of patients using evidence-based/patient-centered principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, including discharge planning and facilitation.

To participate in providing a specialist service comprising assessment, management and treatment, to adults with disorders of communication.

To participate in providing a specialist service comprising assessment, management and treatment, to adults with disorders of feeding and swallowing, when post-basic dysphagia level competencies have been reached.

We're a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients.

We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

"We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers".

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.

As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff.

This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.