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Main area: Community Speech and Language Therapy: Adults
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 349-LCO-6977486C*
Site: Trafford Community Speech Therapy Services - Office Base Trafford General Hospital
Town: Greater Manchester
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 13/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
Are you an experienced and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist looking to join our innovative service supporting adults in the community? We aim for effective personal communication for people and safe, comfortable, enjoyable, and dignified eating & drinking. You will provide specialist speech and language therapy to people with a range of complex medical conditions, completing visits in patients' homes and outpatient clinics. You will receive one-on-one clinical support, professional development, and regular supervision, giving you the opportunity to further develop your skills in various clinical areas such as our weekly Videofluoroscopy clinic and dysphagia management, with access to internal and external courses.
You will work alongside wider multi-disciplinary teams within community services, including Physiotherapy, Community Nursing, Occupational Therapy, and Social Workers. You will also collaborate with colleagues from a variety of other agencies.
Please note: this is a full-time post.
Main duties of the job
You will engage in clinical triage of new referrals, using advanced clinical reasoning and interpretation skills to analyze complex clinical and non-clinical information to prioritize clinical urgency. You will complete assessments of swallowing and communication disorders as required, contribute to patient diagnoses, and recommend the most appropriate SaLT interventions. Communicating sensitively and effectively with patients and/or carers to promote understanding and ensure inclusion in decision-making is essential. You will take responsibility for your own caseload in line with your experience and competence, ensuring you reflect and evaluate your practice and participate in supervision with colleagues.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve created a digitally enabled organization to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness, and drive research and innovation through the introduction of Hive, our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. We’re also excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which outlines how MFT continues to make healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing, and shaping the future of our organization together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, please refer to the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. To make an informed decision to apply to us, please read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that accompanies the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides details about the Trust, our benefits, and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it contains critical information you need to be aware of before submitting an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, please email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Essential and desirable
* Appropriate relevant post-graduate experience working in a community setting.
* Evidence of managing a Dysphagia caseload in the community.
* Videofluoroscopy experience.
* Evidence of recent study/research.
* Understanding of eating and drinking with acknowledged risks.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Siobhan Vesey
Job title: Service Lead, Adult Speech and Language Therapy
Email address: Siobhan.vesey@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 549 6753
Louise Lees
Senior Practitioner, Speech and Language Therapist
Email: Louise.lees@mft.nhs.uk
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