Overview
You will work alongside the Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist to provide treatment to clients in individual and group settings. You will be responsible for your own clinical caseload and for designing programmes to be delivered by support workers and caregivers as part of your clients\' rehabilitation.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist assessment and management for people with acquired brain injuries and progressive neurological conditions, working with the multi-disciplinary team and other local agencies including families, caregivers, local authority services and third sector organisations
* Provide specialist management for people with communication difficulties including aphasia, motor speech disorders and cognitive communication difficulties. This will include conversation partner training, developing compensatory strategies, developing self-advocacy skills and impairment-based therapy
* Contribute to developing new ways of working, alongside the Clinical Lead SLT. For example, further developing telehealth programmes
* Provide specialist assessment and management for people with dysphagia, including designing and delivering rehabilitation programmes
* Support the MDT to work effectively with people with communication difficulties including joint sessions and delivering training
* Work in an interdisciplinary context considering a client\'s holistic needs and contributing to their overall rehabilitation
* The post is suitable for a therapist with experience of working with people with neurological disorders (including stroke) who has not yet worked in a specialist neurological service. We provide regular supervision and will support you to develop your specialist skills
Qualifications and Experience
* A dynamic Speech and Language Therapist with experience working with adults with neurological conditions who may have communication and/or swallowing disorders
* Experience of working with people with neurological disorders (including stroke) is preferred; prior work in a specialist neurological service is not required
* Ability to work in outpatient settings and in clients\' homes; willingness to work flexibly across bases within the county
* Desire to develop specialist skills with regular supervision provided
* Band 6
About Us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
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