Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Flexibility to cover 7 day working required)
- Job ref
- 201-25-586
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Liskeard Hospital / Bodmin Health Centre/ Stratton (base optional)
- Town
- TBC
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Stroke Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
As part of the Integrated Community Stroke Service you will be required to participate in the delivery of Speech and Language Therapy across 7 days on a rotational basis providing specialist assessments and associated care for patients across a defined geographical area. There may be need to provide countywide cover on occasion.
This is a community-based role that requires frequent travel to various locations throughout the county including areas that may not be accessible by public transportation.
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Main duties of the job
Service Aims
- Support safe discharges from hospital and provide a high standard rehabilitation service to patients referred to the Integrated Community Stroke Service
- Provide specialist assessment, effective treatment, and individualised goal setting of patients in their own home/ place of residence, to promote recovery post stroke.
- Early identification and management of stroke related complications.
- Reduce readmissions due to complications post stroke.
- Provide education and support to formal and informal carers.
- Promote the development of self management skills following stroke.
- Provide advice and signposting to appropriate services
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you’ll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increase the numbers of people who use out services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Education and registration
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or equivalent qualification).
- Registration with Health Professions Council
- Dysphagia qualification
- Evidence of own professional development and have additional specialist training and advanced professional qualifications
Desirable criteria
- Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Membership of appropriate clinical interest groups
Experience
Essential criteria
- Have knowledge of national and local clinical guidelines in specialty areas, and an ability to apply these to clinical practice and service policies
- Experience of working with Augmentative and Alternative Communication
- Comprehensive experience of working with adult patients in a variety of settings
- Experience working in an NHS setting in the following clinical areas; Stroke, Eldercare, Neurology
- Knowledge of national agendas influencing clinical practice eg NICE
- An awareness of research and evidence-based practice within stroke care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of evaluating service delivery and monitoring effectiveness and outcomes of intervention, and of undertaking clinical audit Experience of participation in audit and research projects
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- As an autonomous practitioner to be able to deal with complex clinical issues
- Specialist level assessment skills
- Excellent written, verbal, computer and interpersonal communication skills Dexterity, coordination, and keyboard skills
- Well-developed communication skills - empathy, negotiation, and motivation, presenting of complex facts in an understandable way, re-assurance, and support particularly to anxious people
- Have excellent interpersonal skills with ability to listen well and have empathy, without prejudice.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Edward Hewitt
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Stroke SLT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919 041615
- Additional information
Working hours 8-4pm Monday - Friday
Alternative contact details
Ross Bryant - Therapy Team lead East ICSS
07826 674065
Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction.
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