Highly Specialist Stroke Speech & Language Therapist

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We are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated Community Stroke Team across the South of Nottinghamshire.

This post will allow the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely within an integrated multi-disciplinary team, providing therapy to clients referred to the Community Stroke Rehabilitation services, including early support stroke rehabilitation. The multidisciplinary team includes Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Clinical Neuro-Psychology, Assistant Practitioners and Rehabilitation support workers. Reviewing officers provide a post stroke review for clients at 6 and 12 months.

As a Community Stroke service, we aim to offer a high quality therapy led Multidisciplinary Team approach providing stroke rehabilitation in a patient’s home or care home, focused around achievement of agreed rehabilitation goals.

As a Highly Specialist Speech and Language therapist in the Community Stroke team you will be expected to:

- Manage a caseload using highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment for stroke clients who may have complex and diverse presentations, and plan appropriate management and treatment using specialist advanced clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of therapeutic skills
- To provide high quality holistic evidence-based care to patients/service users that is responsive, effective and efficient. 
- To facilitate and support timely discharge and prevent inappropriate admissions by supporting patients / service users to remain as independent as possible and maintain or improve their level of function and quality of life.
- To assist in the development and implementation of appropriate pathways of care for the Stroke pathway 
- To provide locality team leadership and deputise for the Team Lead when needed and provide support with the clinical development and management of staff.
- To be pro-active in delivering responsive and anticipatory care to the wider community, promoting independent healthy lifestyles, reducing health inequalities, and tackling underlying determinations of health, to improve overall qualities of life in the local population.
- To provide some operational leadership; ensuring commissioned targets & key performance indicators are met.
- To provide co-ordination, support and clinical supervision of Speech and Language Therapists, assistants, and students 
- To support the organisation and delivery of in-service training and initiate informal training sessions when required to ensure high standards of clinical care.
- To keep up to date with innovation in AAC equipment and App development.
- To facilitate diverse and high-quality therapy placements across the service, support staff to develop and enjoy positive roles and experiences as therapy clinical educators which contributes to key AHP workforce strategies.

We know that compassionate leadership, which focuses on staff engagement and inclusion, supporting staff well-being and quality will deliver excellent outcomes for patients and therefore adopt an approach to ensure all staff voices are heard and contribute to strategic and operational improvements, promoting shared ambitions resulting in achievable outcomes.

Working with us will provide you the opportunity to really make a difference in ensuring that quality services are delivered both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients.

We therefore seek a compassionate, dynamic, innovative Speech and Language Therapist to join us on this journey and ensure our patients continue to receive exceptional care and we continue to be recognised as a great place to work.

The Community Stroke Team is split into three localities. The base of this role is within in the locality of Nottingham North and East. The team work closely and will require you to work flexibly, across the whole of South Nottinghamshire, to support our evolving and developing service, supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care.

This position requires you to work independently, but also be a team player, working closely with our Integrated Care Provider partners providing care to a diverse population covering many different geographies including, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe.

As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations.

You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer:

•    Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
•    Pension scheme
•    Flexible working and job share opportunities
•    Promotion of a healthy work life balance
•    Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme
•    Receive an induction which is tailored to suit your individual needs.
•    Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
•    Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted leisure Centre membership
•    Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
•    An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
•    Support for carers

Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our website.

The job description and person specification are attached for further information on this position. 

Should you wish to discuss this post further or come and visit the team  please contact Claire Lee - Team Lead 07973 656 678 / [email protected]  or Michelle McMillan 07973946448 / [email protected]

If you are a Highly Specialised Speech and Language therapist and you are looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you!