Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Speech & Language Therapist to join our friendly Adult Team based at the County Hospital, Hereford. We have a part-time vacancy for someone to work in our Outpatient and Domiciliary teams, so if you have experience of Adult caseloads (especially voice, progressive neurology and swallowing disorders) we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will spend time in one of our Outpatient clinic settings in Hereford and also visiting clients at home, running your own complex caseload including dysphagia. You will also contribute to our well-regarded training programmes & initiatives and may have the opportunity to support more junior staff.

• Manage your own complex caseload involving a mix of voice, neurology, dysphagia and some frail elderly clients in clinic and domiciliary settings including care homes
• Contribute to departmental training programmes
• Offer & receive clinical supervision
• Complete clinical noting
• Liaise with other members of the MDT and the client & family/carers
• Take part in audit & clinical research
• Support junior or less-experienced staff

Working for our organisation

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.