Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Job Opportunity: Maternity Leave Post
This is an exciting opportunity to join our brilliant team covering a maternity leave post.
Role Overview
The post holder will be joining the Specialist Medicine team at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust, providing a highly specialist service to patients.
Responsibilities
- Joining the Specialist Medicine team
- Providing a highly specialist service across a wide range of specialties, including Acute Medicine, Respiratory, Cancer Services, Surgical specialties, and 'front door' services
- Working alongside a large and supportive team of therapists, including 2 Clinical Specialist SLTs, supported by assistant SLTs
- Utilizing FEES and videofluoroscopy services
- Participating in training to develop competencies in instrumental dysphagia assessment
Location
The team provides a service across both NUH's campuses: City and QMC. The team has very close links with the MDT and there are opportunities for service development and to enhance your leadership skills.
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Requirements
The post holder will work alongside other Band 7 SLTs in the team and the Clinical Specialist SLT with designated responsibilities for team leadership and clinical care.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, management, and treatment programme to people with communication and swallowing difficulties
- Providing highly specialist clinical expertise, with experience working with a wide range of aetiologies and specialisms
- Providing day-to-day management of the service and offering high-quality clinical supervision
- Leading on strategic developments within their specialism, in liaison with their colleagues and service leads
Job Details
- This is a full-time post and is a fixed-term post of 9 months. We will consider part-time.
- This post gives the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a supported environment.
About Us
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education, and innovation.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
- Name: Sian Rajakaruna
- Job Title: Speech and Language Therapy Pathway Lead
- Email Address: sian.rajakaruna2@nhs.net
- Telephone Number: 07812277888
Main SLT Department: 0115 9709221
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