Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Practitioner

7 days ago


Middlesbrough, United Kingdom South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

37.5 Hours per week (Permanent)

Do you want to be part of a support team making a difference to people’s care journey within an acute hospital setting? Are you interested in developing your skills and knowledge within Speech and Language Therapy?

We are looking for a highly motivated and creative individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a passion for helping and supporting others.

You should have good organisational and time management skills.

You will be well supported by an experienced team of therapists to develop the competencies needed to fulfil this role.

You will act as an Assistant Practitioner within the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Service.

You will work as part of an interdisciplinary team and be required to prepare and administer therapeutic programmes for patients with swallowing and communication difficulties under the direction of qualified speech and language therapists.

Under the supervision of the speech and language therapist you will also work closely with catering, nursing and dietetic staff to ensure the provision of a satisfactory meal service for inpatients requiring texture modified meals.

You will undertake duties to support the smooth functioning of the department and service including administrative, audit and service improvement projects and will support with education of staff, students and volunteers.

You can expect to be working with a wide range of patients and specialities including respiratory medicine, cardiology, gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, older people’s medicine and stroke.

You will be encouraged to participate with your colleagues in service improvement, clinical governance and continuing professional development. We have excellent education facilities on site.

Middlesbrough is a large town in Teesside surrounded by beautiful countryside, market towns and villages and within easy reach of the coast. It is served by good travel networks; is within easy reach of the A1M motorway; cities such as Newcastle, Durham, York and Leeds are very accessible via the East Coast main line train service. We are also close to three international airports - Teesside, Leeds Bradford and Newcastle.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.



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