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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Main area: General Medicine
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE4183
Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: Broomfield Hospital
Town: Chelmsford
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/07/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are delighted to offer an excellent opportunity for a highly specialist Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to lead our inpatient general medical team.
This is a dynamic post for an experienced and dedicated Speech and Language Therapist. The successful candidate will lead our general medical service and deliver a highly specialist intervention for adults with acquired swallowing and communication needs.
If you are passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centered care and are ready to further develop your specialist skills, we would love to hear from you.
As a highly specialist adult speech and language therapist, you will:
- Lead & Inspire: Lead on the professional and clinical direction of the Broomfield Hospital Adult SLT Acute Inpatient Service making full use of Provide’s culture of innovation and commitment to excellence.
- Manage & Develop: Contribute to the professional development of junior colleagues supporting team growth, and help to shape a thriving, motivated workforce.
- Deliver Excellence: Help to ensure that services are implemented safely, effectively, and efficiently within an agreed locality, making a tangible difference to the lives of those we serve.
- Collaborate & Innovate: Work within multidisciplinary teams and across organizational boundaries with Provide and MSEFT to enhance and streamline service delivery.
Main duties of the job
- To work as a member of the Broomfield Hospital Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team in the provision of a highly specialist service to adults across acute inpatient wards.
- To contribute to the delivery of instrumental assessment including videofluoroscopy and FEES and to provide cover for other clinicians as required.
- In line with requirements of other Band 7s on site, to deputise for the Operational Lead in respect of operational management of the service as required.
- Supervise and develop junior members of the team within the service.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of settings, such as hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider.
We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Our Job Description and Person Specification (attached) tells you all about this role, what to expect and what is needed to succeed. When completing your application please make sure to tell us how your experience and skills fit the person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- Professional Registration with the HCPC
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of continuing CPD
Desirable criteria
- Master’s degree or equivalent ability in relevant field
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the independent assessment and management of complex acquired communication and swallowing disorders with adult populations within a variety of settings (including acute inpatients and critical care)
- Experience of managing and leading a team including providing supervision, guidance, and completion of probation and/or appraisals.
- Experience in identification of service gaps/ issues and implementation of sustainable Quality Improvement and service development initiatives.
- In-depth knowledge of a broad range of assessment and intervention tools relevant to complex communication and swallowing difficulties, underpinned by national policies and guidelines relevant to the area of critical care, older people and general medicine
- In-depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance to inform escalation of service issues and risks
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience of providing training to professionals
Desirable criteria
- Experience with supporting staff through performance and/or sickness management utilising Trust policies.
- Knowledge of neurorehabilitation pathways and referral processes
- Completion of Leadership training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates competence in the facilitation, interpretation and reporting of videofluoroscopy.
- Ability to independently manage non-ventilated patients with tracheostomies from insertion to decannulation.
- Excellent interpersonal skills utilising observation, active listening and empathy, in order to build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders (within SLT, wider MDT, patients and families)
- Demonstrates good organisational skills with the ability to effectively plan, prioritise, and manage clinical and non-clinical responsibilities, ensuring deadlines are met and high standards of service delivery are maintained
- Ability to multitask in a busy, fast-paced environment showing flexibility to changes in service needs and priorities, and the ability to trouble-shoot complex clinical and operational team issues as/when they arise
- Proficient in Microsoft 365 to support documentation, communication and admin tasks
Desirable criteria
- Experience leading in videofluoroscopy clinics
- Competence in the facilitation, interpretation and reporting of FEES
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
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- Ability to work as a team player.
- Highly motivated to achieve results
- Able to remain calm when working under pressure
- Awareness of own strengths and weaknesses with an ability to self-evaluate performance and ability to work flexibly when required.
- Ability to work flexibly when required
Further Information
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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To check progress on your application, please log into your TRAC account. We aim to keep you updated on the status of your application as soon as we can.
Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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