Band 5 Rotational Speech and Language Therapist - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University Hospitals Birmingham

University Hospitals Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Job overview:

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust is a large organisation, based in the vibrant city of Birmingham, now covering four busy hospital sites and a community service.

This Adult Speech and Language Therapy position is a rotational post and will be based at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospital sites providing input to adult clients across in-patients, early supported discharge, ENT services and Solihull community.

Due internal promotion we are pleased to offer this excellent opportunity for a band 5 therapist to join our dynamic team and gain experience rotating through this broad spectrum of adult clinical caseloads and settings.

We have an established band 5 rotation program where there is the opportunity to work with communication, dysphagia, voice and head and neck cancer caseloads within both the hospital and community settings.

You will benefit from access to band 5 peer support, preceptorship and an established supervision structure to help you develop into your new role.

You will be working alongside specialist therapists who run voice clinics / FEES / Videofluoroscopy services with recent funding for new equipment to further develop these services.

You will be joining a large, enthusiastic and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system.

Main duties, tasks & skills required:

In your rotational role you will work across our 3 hospital sites and will work alongside highly specialist staff and integrate into a variety of specialist multi-disciplinary teams.

The Trust provides a 7-day service. The post-holder will be required to participate in 7 day working rotas as required.

The post-holder must be a car driver in order to meet the essential travel requirements of the post.

For information please call

Suzi Germain, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist on

Asfa Bashir, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist on

About us:

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment.

This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work.

This is more than words. We are taking action.

Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO.

We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description:

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification:
Qualifications:

Essential:

Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification
Current registration with Health Care Professions Council
Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Experience:

Essential:

Undergraduate clinical experience in relevant clinical areas
Competence in the management of communication disorders
Knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
Awareness of the principles of clinical governance /audit
Awareness of communication, cultural and communicationimpairment issues of clients from ethnic minorities.
Sound knowledge of IT

Desirable:

Postgraduate experience in relevant clinical areas

Disclosure and Barring Service Check:

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UK Professional Registration:

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.