Job overview

Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapist 

Will consider Band 5 developing band 6 post for suitably qualified applicants.

A fantastic opportunity  has arisen for a Band 6  Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join the Acute adult team across the 2 Acute Hospitals, Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals. These sessions are within the acute teams and the head and neck cancer S&LT teams.

You will join a team of Speech and Language Therapists who are situated within the  Acute S&LT team as well as a larger countywide Team of Adult Speech & Language Therapists and Support Practitioners.

These are substantive posts with the opportunity of full time or part time working, across the Acute and H&N Pathways within adult Speech & Language Therapy countywide.  Thereby offering an opportunity to develop skills across a variety of caseloads/ disorders.  

All staff are encouraged to attend regular team meetings, countywide staff meetings and in-house clinical forums. The service promotes a strong culture of clinical supervision. Professional development is encouraged through membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks, in-house and external training courses and is monitored through annual appraisal.

Due to the number of sessions that are available, there is the opportunity to negotiate preferred sessions and/or locations with the successful candidates. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with specialist knowledge of differential diagnosis in adults with Speech, Language and Swallowing difficulties and experience working with patients across various pathways.

The post holder will work within the Adult Speech and Language Therapy team to manage a complex caseload comprising of a range of adult clients with various differential diagnoses.

The post holder will supervise SLT Assistant Practitioners and volunteers.

The post holder will provide clinical teaching of SLT students and will participate in the development and delivery of specialist SLT training to others.

Being a car driver is essential. There are two acute locations  that our teams cover within the county.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.  We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.