Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Stroke

Job summary

Are you passionate about delivering outstanding speech and language therapy (SLT) care in stroke and rehabilitation? Are you keen to lead a team of specialist SLT's and work collaboratively with the stroke MDT? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Due to internal reconfiguration and additional funding we have an exciting opportunity at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust to appoint a Band 7 Speech & Language Therapists to join our dynamic Speech & Language Therapy team.

The successful candidate will join a friendly and well-established SLT department, with excellent links with the wider stroke MDT. Clinical and professional development is strongly encouraged, and you will benefit from a robust supervision structure and peer support. The team benefits from SLT led inpatient FEES and an inpatient/outpatient videofluoroscopy service, and training in these areas can be facilitated.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

The successful candidate will jointly lead the Stroke Speech and Language Therapy team alongside another highly specialist colleague. The team consists of therapy support workers and band 5 and 6 SLTs covering acute stroke inpatients, and enhanced supported discharge (ESD) services.

This post will be largely based at Heartlands Hospital, and you will work closely with the stroke team lead based at Good Hope hospital. You will work closely with the clinical team lead for SLT and the wider team to provide an excellent level of care.

The successful candidate will be able to work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner with patients experiencing swallowing and communication difficulties following a stroke. Alongside this you will provide direct line management to the team. Evidence of strong organisational, communication and leadership skills are essential to compliment your advanced speech and language therapy knowledge and skills. You should be passionate about providing effective patient centered care, as well highly enthusiastic about the ongoing development of stroke services.

We'd love to hear from you for an informal chat or visit to the department. For any further information, please contact:

Katie Wood- Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy

0121 424 0432

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

• Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
• Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. We do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://birminghamandsolihullcovidvaccine.nhs.uk where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent

Health Professions Council -- Licence to Practice

Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area

Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Desirable

Leadership training

Postgraduate advanced accredited dysphagia training

Experience

Essential

Experience of management of complex stroke / neurological patients

Experience of training staff groups at all levels

Experience of leading audit

Experience of SLT students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels

Desirable

Relevant postgraduate experience in specialist area (Stroke)

Experience of involvement in VF / FEES clinic

Experience of staff management

Experience of conducting or being involved in research in the specialist area

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Katie Wood 

Katie.Wood@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214240432