Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Are you passionate about providing a high-quality service to stroke patients? Are you an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge? Lincolnshire’s Stroke Service is a dynamic, continuously developing service.
About the Role
As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Lincolnshire Stroke Service, you will provide high quality stroke rehabilitation to patients on the hyper acute and acute stroke unit at Lincoln County Hospital. If you are a team player with a special interest in the area of stroke, look no further, we are looking to recruit to this post. You would be supported and mentored by your SLT band 7 and band 6 colleagues. The service has access to videofluoroscopy and FEES, therefore you would be eligible for future instrumental training opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver high quality patient-centred care and rehabilitation to people who have recently experienced a stroke.
- Assess and manage communication and swallowing impairments.
- Devise therapy care plans suitable for assistants.
- Participate in service development.
- Work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses, and Medics.
- Participate in the collection of Speech and Language Therapy data for SSNAP (Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme).
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Requirements
- Experience of MDT, working with stroke.
- Skills in dysphagia (including management of eating and drinking with acknowledged risk).
Flexible Working
Weekend working is part of the service, therefore you will need to be flexible to accommodate this according to service demand.
About the Employer
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
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LCHS recognizes the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism, and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits, contact:
- Name: Laura Thomas
- Job title: Professional Advisor SLT - Acute Stroke
- Email address: laura.thomas29@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07583680529
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