We have an exciting opportunity to work as part of a new initiative to improve patient flow in our acute hospitals.
We provide a specialist service to sub acute, recovery and rehabilitation community beds aligned to our two district hospitals.
Our service aims to work as part of an MDT to provide support to patients who have been discharged from the acute wards to a community bed for continued rehab or support to enable them to return to the community.
This role will support those patients who require continued management of both communication and swallowing difficulties.
The beds will provide support for patients discharged from the stroke, frailty and Orthopaedics wards.
You will be a driven and enthusiastic individual excited by the prospect of being involved with a new initiative with excellent communication skills and a passion for driving patient focused quality care.
The successful candidate will work as part of a specialist Community MDT supporting patients in two community wards, one in each acute hospital. At Telford there will be 20 stroke and frailty beds and at Shrewsbury, 32 frailty and orthopaedic beds.
You will have experience of working with dysphagia and acquired communication disorders within an MDT setting. The role will support patients with rehab and to aid patients transitioning from an acute ward back to the community.
This post will sit within the wider community SLT team which covers the county of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin.
We are a small but well established team who cover a range of clinical areas including all four community hospitals providing both a ward based and outpatient service, input to the local ICS teams and domiciliary teams. We also cover the specialist orthopaedic hospital and specialist spinal unit.
We provide a countywide voice service, which accepts referrals from numerous sources. We input into a joint ENT consultant clinic and are in the process of re-establishing SLT led Nasendoscopy clinics.
Our acute colleagues deliver a video fluoroscopy clinic and we are in the process of re establishing a FEES service.
We are strong advocates of regular clinical supervision, management supervision and actively seek to support the health and wellbeing of our colleagues. We have regular whole team meetings and CPD sessions.
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025