Job overview

Do you love working with people with complex needs, and are passionate about championing and facilitating communication to support the transition from hospital through personalised care and support planning and enabling independence and quality of life? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 speech and language therapist to join the award winning Enhanced Practice in Care Homes (EPiC) Team in Hackney. 

Working as part of a small dedicated multi-disciplinary team, the EPiC Speech and Language therapist works collaboratively within the 4 nursing homes in Hackney and following recent review is now recurrently funded. 

Through proactive assessment for all new residents, and brief intervention the speech and language therapist supports residents and care teams to maximise the resident voice, enabling choice and quality of life through improving functional communication within the nursing homes for people with acquired communication disorders. 

Please note closing date is indicative and post may close early if there are a high number of applicants.

Main duties of the job

Our vision is that high quality communication with residents throughout their stay will support the identification of individuals’ needs, wishes, culture, values, and beliefs to improve and enrich individualised care provision. Dysphagia assessment and management is provided by the local Homerton Adult Community Rehabilitation Team.

 The post holder will work closely with the MDT, including the EPIC occupational therapist, physiotherapist, and care homes teams to identify individuals who would benefit from direct specialist communication intervention including development of individualised AAC.  Communication assessment will include the service user and their communication partners including the care home teams and inform personalised holistic care and support plans, and to facilitate a timely discussion all residents in a regular multi-disciplinary meeting. The capacity, culture and operational processes of each nursing home will vary and may therefore require different engagement and approach

The post holder will have access to clinical supervision, CPD and support from the wider Homerton SLT team and ACRT, including opportunities to maintain clinical dysphagia skills and development.

Working for our organisation

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff.  This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan.  All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits. Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.