Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Expected start date Sept 2024
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 151-CG-210
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wexham Park Hospital
- Town
- Slough
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 Per Annum (pro-rata) inc HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/05/2024
Employer heading
Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
We have a rare opportunity for a Band 7 therapist who has experience of working with voice and upper airway disorders. If you are a highly motivated individual who shares our determination to deliver top class patient care, then we would love to hear from you! We value our staff highly and you will be supported and encouraged in your role through CPD activity and clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
The role involves planning and providing therapy to an adult and paediatric upper airway/voice caseload as well as supporting consultant run joint voice and intervention clinics. See job description and addendum for the full description of the role.
You will be based within a very friendly and supportive team of speech and language therapists working predominantly with adult inpatients and outpatients as well as providing a local service for children with cleft lip/palate.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
In the Therapies Directorate we have a strong EDI culture and welcome applicants who will continue to contribute to the power of diversity we want in our teams to help us deliver our best services to our population
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- Degree in SLT
- HCPC registration
- Clear application with relevant detail included
- Extensive specialist clinical experience with complex case management in upper airway and voice
- Evidence of maintaining clinical competence and keeping up to date with clinical developments.
- Knowledge of National policies and procedures relevant to specialist area.
- Able to build effective working relationships, network and assert views, sometime in challenging situations.
- Experience of working in an MDT clinic with ENT/respiratory consultants
Desirable criteria
- RCSLT member
- Experience of scoping
- Active involvement in specialist clinical support networks
- Experience of providing SLT leadership at joint clinics
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Faye Littlewood
- Job title
- Senior Specialist SLT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 6153510
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