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Speech & Language Therapist - Community Stroke
The closing date is 03 November 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community Stroke Services for a Speech & Language Therapist to join our team.
This role is suitable for both newly qualified therapists and for those who are looking to gain specialist experience working with Stroke.
The Community Stroke service provides Early Supported Discharge as well as support for people who have a new therapeutic need some time after their stroke. This is in line with the integrated model for stroke services providing a needs-based service.
The role will join our multidisciplinary team which consists of Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists as well as an experienced team of Associate and Assistant practitioners.
This role offers a great opportunity to work with adults with acquired communication and swallowing issues.
Main duties of the job
You will be working in a range of settings including patient's own homes, nursing and residential homes and with inpatients at our Community Hospitals.
You will be very well supported with regular peer and personal supervision. Wider support is also available from the Clinical lead and other senior staff and peers.
You will be encouraged to participate in our in-service training to further develop your knowledge. For new qualified staff, you would be supported through probation and to achieve your newly qualified practitioner competencies.
If you have not yet completed your dysphagia competencies we can look to support this.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
* Eligible for registered membership of RCSLT
* Ability to travel to different places of work/driving licence.
* HCPC membership
* Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (R.C.S.L.T.)
Skills
* Ability to use Word, PowerPoint, e-mail, Excel and Access (or similar spreadsheet or database packages
Experience
* Experience of working in various clinical settings.
* Portfolio of CPD evidence relevant to post.
* Assessment of communication impairments by various means, including a range of standardised assessments
* Differential diagnosis of patients with multiple aetiologies
* Liaising with other agencies/other staff groups
* Experience working as a member of a multidisciplinary team
* Recognition of requirement for and means of accessing guidance/support
* Bedside assessment of dysphagia
* Involvement in audit/clinical governance within SLT
Knowledge
* Knowledge of approaches to assessment and interventions for people post stroke
* Knowledge of evidence based practice in relation to the client group.
* Knowledge of normal and abnormal swallowing
* Knowledge of environmental impact on communication and behaviours
* Assessment/knowledge of alternative/ augmentative communication systems
* Awareness of change in NHS and current legislation
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.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£31,049 to £37,796 a yearper annum pro rata
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