Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Due to internal promotion, we are excited to offer this opportunity to join our Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service in Ipswich and East Suffolk, working with people with acquired conditions on the inpatient wards and the inpatient stroke unit (including HASU) as a senior speech and language therapist.

This service champions research, innovation and development. Our team is award winning, having previously been named ‘Team of the Year’ at ESNEFT, as well as winning awards for our innovation including ‘Making Better Use of Resources’ award at the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS ‘Can Do’ awards last year. The team are actively engaged in service improvement projects including the use of EMST, and service redesign to align with the NHS long term plan. The Trust is committed to developing leadership skills for staff at all levels.

Provisional interview date 2nd July

You will support individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties, including those with complex needs. You will have the opportunity to develop specialist skills, such as working in critical care and high dependency areas, and/ or instrumental assessment skills with videofluoroscopy or FEES. (Training can be provided to support competency development, according to service need). You will work with the Stroke team to support individuals with their rehabilitation, setting goals and discharge plans with the MDT, working with patients and their families to help them with their stroke recovery. You will help support operational service delivery, through contributing to triage and prioritisation of the clinical caseload.

You will belong to a large, integrated SLT service in East Suffolk delivers inpatient, outpatient and community services. Our team supports people who have a range of conditions including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, head and neck cancer, voice disorders, dementia, respiratory conditions, and frailty. We also offer a countywide service to adults with learning disability. We are a friendly team, and share expertise across the teams with our populations at the centre of service delivery. Our department sits within the Integrated Therapies division and therefore have excellent links to our MDT colleagues, including shared CPD opportunities. All teams are supported by our SLT apprentices and assistants.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kate Harrall Job title: Therapy Lead Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07714 629307

We welcome enquiries and would be happy to arrange a visit to the Department. You can also find out more about the local area, our team and services here: https://esneft.pagetiger.com/speech-and-language-therapies/1