A Vacancy at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapist with strong skills working with dysphagia, passion for working with patients with mental health conditions and aptitude for service development.
You will work directly with patients in High, Medium and Low secure hospitals in the Forensic division of Nottinghamshire Healthcare, building relationships with multiple teams, shaping the universal, targeted and specialist offer of support for people with dysphagia, and leading on quality improvement. There may be scope to work on Speech Language and Communication Needs in some instances, with consideration for longer term service requirements.
You will form part of the Speech and Language Therapy Team, with support from the SLT Professional Lead, and leading on developing the skills of the wider SLT workforce.
A band 6-7 development post would be considered for suitable candidates.
The post holder will work collaboratively with each hospital and the Professional Lead SLT in order to plan and deliver a dysphagia service, with a high level of independent working. Application of clinical skills in order to address speech, language and communication needs of patients referred to the service will be required, with consideration of longer-term service strategy regarding these needs.
This role requires a high level of clinical and professional expertise in order that those with speech, language and communication needs and/or dysphagia needs and their care teams benefit from a well-coordinated pro-active, specialist, efficient and effective speech and language therapy service with specialist focus on dysphagia in forensic healthcare.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
You will lead dysphagia services in the forensic division of Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust, covering a Rampton Hospital, Wathwood Hospital, The Wells Road Centre, and Arnold Lodge Hospital.
Please see the attached job description for full details of the role.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
This advert closes on Monday 6 Jan 2025
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