Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist

Package Description:

As a Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team at Farnham Hospital, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Package Description

• An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist wishing to develop their skills within the adult population of Surrey and North East Hampshire. You will be part of a friendly, integrated, and supportive team. We have a well-developed supervision and peer support system in place.
• Our team works to deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy provision for In-patients (incl stroke rehabilitation), outpatients, and people in community who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties, resulting from a variety of acquired or progressive neurological conditions.
• This post will primarily be based at Farnham Hospital but there will be a requirement to travel around the local area to provide a service into the community.

Main Responsibilities

To assess and treat a caseload which includes complex cases, in line with experience and ability, as an autonomous practitioner with appropriate supervision, evidencing problem solving and reasoning skills and independence of judgement. To develop clear care plans based on evidence and best practice.

Liaise with a wide range of professional colleagues and other agencies to ensure comprehensive management of the patient e.g. attendance at ward meetings, MDT’s and liaison e.g. with GP’s, dieticians and social services.

Plan for patient discharge, ensuring appropriate onward referral and liaison as required.

With support, to manage own caseload and shared triage responsibility.

The Ideal Candidate

• Degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy approved by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
• Membership with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
• Registration as a qualified Speech and Language Therapist with the Health Professions Council (HCPC)
• Great communication and organisational skills
• Confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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