This vacancy may close early once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
We have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our Adult Speech Therapy team. This post will provide input to our community stroke teams and our adult team community caseloads. This job would suit a newly qualified Speech Therapist, or a Speech Therapist looking for experience working across a varied adult caseload.
You will be involved in providing assessment, management and support to patients with a communication and/ or swallowing difficulty, predominantly in community settings including clinics, patients’ own homes and care homes. There is opportunity to work as part of an established stroke multi-disciplinary team in our local community stroke teams.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
You will be able to demonstrate skills in the assessment, treatment and management of communication and/ or swallowing difficulties within a varied caseload, including stroke and long term neurological conditions. This post will involve working in to the community speech therapy service and in to the local community stroke teams. We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic graduate or newly qualified therapist, who enjoys working as part of a team, and who is keen to develop their knowledge and experience working with a varied adult caseload.
This role requires community working (including working in a patient's home, nursing or residential home, or clinic), and therefore the ability to travel between venues in a short timescale is essential.
We would welcome informal visits to find out more about us and the role. To find out more or to arrange an informal visit please contact Catherine Walker, Operational Lead for Adult Speech and Language Therapy on 01429 522471.
