We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Adult SLT team at NELFT covering Brentwood, Billericay, Basildon, Wickford and Thurrock areas. We are looking for an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated individual to join our friendly department as part of our Team.
The Adult SLT Team are a respected and and work closely with multidisciplinary team, with a positive record of developing innovative and patient centred services. CPD is actively supported through regular clinical supervision, appraisals and excellent training opportunities.
As an experienced and highly specialist SLT you will independently prioritise and manage a community caseload, which includes Community Hospital, Clinics, domiciliary and care homes.
The successful candidate will have an opportunity to further develop their existing skills, and work in an exciting and dynamic team.
The ideal candidate must be able to work independently as well as part of a team and have good time management and prioritisation skills.
The post holder will be required to participate in service development initiatives.
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Fringe
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,258 and a maximum payment of £2,122 per annum pro rata).
· Provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service to clients referred with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to include assessment, diagnoses and treatment.
· Following assessment, and utilising specialist knowledge and skills, design and develop evidence based treatment and management programmes to be implemented within the multi-disciplinary teams and the clients family.
· Make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment evidence providing advice when appropriate.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system.
Please see the attached Job description and Person specification for more information about this role and working at NELFT. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Feb 2025