About this role
Job summary
Are you passionate about working with adults with dysphagia? Are you organised and looking to work within an acute setting and community multidisciplinary teams?
Due to an internal promotion, we are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our integrated community and acute team full time. This post and includes dysphagia management in general acute and of the wider community population. You will be part of the team delivering communication and dysphagia services on thegeneral wards and in community settings. You may be a dysphagia competent Band 5 looking for the next step. As a large team we can support this development. We have access to instrumental dysphagia assessment, a supportive admin team, embedded supervision and support structures for both professional development and wellbeing.
As part of a large teaching organisation, CPD is very well supported and actively encouraged. The successful candidate will sit within a wider adult service with access to a wealth of experience and support in the areas of critical care, acute inpatients, head and neck cancer and voice, CNRT and community. We also benefit from being part of a large SLT service which includes children's services allowing opportunities for cross-service development projects. We have very strong AHP leadership within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
The Post holder will have clinical responsibility for adults with acquiredcommunication, feeding and swallowing difficulties. The Post holder will have specialised skills with adults with acquiredcommunication, feeding and swallowing needs. The post holder will work in community and inpatient settings and support a range of patients with swallowing needs. The post holder will be a member of the multidisciplinary community andinpatient teams.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities
Person Specification
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address
New Cross Hospital and Community (West Park Hospital)
Wolverhampton Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0PQ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)