Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our Speech and Language Team at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow as a band 3 speech and language therapy assistant.

You will work alongside qualified speech and language therapists and an assistant practitioner to provide treatment to patients across all our wards. You will be involved in assisting patients with a structured dysphagia rehabilitation programmes and undertake basic screening of patients that are refereed into the service.

Training will be provided to achieve competencies in order for you to for fill the role.

This is a part time post of 18.75 hours per week, preferably over 5 days but working pattern can be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a member of the Speech and Language Therapy team as an assistant therapist, providing care to inpatients on acute wards, within the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow. The role will involve providing support to qualified therapists in administrative/clinical tasks and assisting with development of services for patients, colleagues and the speech and language service

·       To provide skilled routine and some non-routine, clinical and non-clinical support to the speech and language therapy team.  Follow guidelines agreed and set by the therapists to assess and manage patients with swallowing and communication difficulties.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation 

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.