Main area: Speech and Language Therapy
Grade Band: 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be working as part of a 6-day service with plans for in future a 7-day service.)
Job ref: 438-PB2633
Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Preston Hospital
Town: Preston
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 17/03/2025
Specialist Stroke Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and passionate Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to join the Acute/Rehab Stroke Team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHTR). We are a Comprehensive Stroke Centre, which means this post offers an interesting variety of work across the stroke pathway.
This role is a rotational post between HASU, acute stroke, and stroke rehabilitation. Clinically this entails complex acquired disorders of communication, cognition, and dysphagia, and the opportunity to work with an established and passionate MDT. Collaboratively, we are part of an active regional stroke delivery network, which drives quality improvement initiatives and provides training opportunities to ensure optimal patient care.
LTHTR have established VFS and FEES clinics, and experience in these areas would be advantageous. However, for the right candidate, training in VFS and exposure to FEES could be provided in-house.
You will be expected to work within a 6-day therapy service with plans in the future for a 7-day service. This role also requires cross-site working. Excellent interpersonal skills are essential to build working relationships with multiple MDTs across sites.
CPD is actively supported, and you will have the opportunity to continue to develop your clinical portfolio. Part-time and flexible working will be considered.
Main duties of the job
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust is a large acute organisation, delivering specialist services both locally and regionally. The Speech Therapy Department is situated at the Royal Preston Hospital site; however, we also deliver services to Chorley District Hospital and our new Community Healthcare Hub (intermediate care / step-down facility).
The role involves providing specialist speech and language therapy services to adults with acquired communication, cognition, and dysphagia disorders. You will work across both acute and rehabilitation pathways, collaborating proactively with the multidisciplinary team. You’ll support the clinical lead in the daily management of the stroke service, applying clinical knowledge, maintaining operational accountability, and assisting staff as needed.
We are a dedicated SLT service with excellent patient care at the core of our values, and our varied caseload provides complex presentations across dysphagia, communication, and voice respectively. We have established VFS and FEES clinics, with in-service training to provide sustainability. We strive to continuously improve our SLT services through service development and innovation and are keen that audit/research are part of our clinical roles. We have strong clinical leadership within the department and structured clinical supervision and CPD are promoted.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
You will join a large friendly team of speech and language therapists covering a range of specialist services. The department is rated 'GOLD' on the STAR quality assurance framework, with a strong commitment to evidence-based practice. CPD and training are well supported.
To find out more about us, look at our Twitter / X page @SLT_LTHTR
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Actively promote high-quality service delivery at all times and promote SLT presence in MDT working.
* Build excellent relationships with the MDT and liaise effectively to ensure seamless care.
* Provide care across designated areas, prioritising and advising the clinical lead when shortfalls occur, or are likely to occur.
* Management of a specialist caseload within the acute/rehab setting.
* To contribute to the assessment, diagnosis, and management of complex disorders with support from a senior specialist SLT.
* To participate in instrumental assessment.
* To demonstrate skills in motivating patients to engage in therapeutic processes.
* To support personal and staff CPD.
* To support clinical governance and quality agenda.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
* Recognised Degree / Masters in Speech and Language Pathology.
* HCPC & RCSLT Registration.
* Evidence of CPD in relevant areas.
* Postgraduate courses in relevant clinical area of Speech and Language Therapy.
Knowledge & Experience
* Specialist knowledge of acquired disorders of communication and dysphagia.
* Experience of managing dysphagia and communication disorders in stroke, both in the acute and rehab setting.
* Understanding of the roles of other healthcare professionals and working as a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of providing training/education to MDT and patients/carers.
* Clinical educator.
* Experience of using computer-based programmes within assessment and therapy.
* Knowledge of high and low tech AAC.
* Training and clinical supervision of others.
* Videofluoroscopy training or experience.
* FEES exposure.
* Experience of running groups within the related area.
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to manage patients independently.
* Analytical, problem-solving abilities.
* Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills.
* Excellent communication and written skills.
* Works well in a team environment.
* Ability to multitask and work flexibly.
* Ability to perform cervical auscultation.
* Data collection and analysis.
Values & Behaviours
* Alignment to Trust Values and Core Behaviours.
* Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
* Take responsibility for obtaining the highest standards of care achievable which is empathetic in nature.
* Good self-insight.
* Commitment to CPD.
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Name: Lucy Roebuck Saez
Job title: Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Email address: lucy.roebucksaez@lthtr.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01772 522426
Additional information:
Louise Sloan
Head of Speech & Language Therapy
Email: louise.sloan@lthtr.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01772 522426
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