Speech & Language Therapist - Community Adult

4 weeks ago


Colchester, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you looking to start your new career in Speech and Language Therapy or looking to broaden your experience working within adults?

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Community Adult Speech and Language Therapy team in North-East Essex.

Our team is very friendly, motivated and supportive, and we are committed to regularly reviewing our service delivery, clinical supervision and our CPD. We have years of collective clinical experience between us/ We are always very generous with our knowledge and supporting each other to grow as professionals.

We are proud of our holistic and patient-led approach to patient care and are flexible to the changing needs and demands of our services.

We have community offices in Colchester and Clacton, clinic bases at the PCC and Clacton Hospital and also support home working.

You will be a confident and enthusiastic graduate or NQP who can demonstrate a variety of different skills and is keen to develop their knowledge and experience working with adults in the community.

You will manage your own varied caseload of adults with conditions including neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, brain injury and voice disorders. You will work with a range of disorders including with dysphagia, aphasia, dysarthria, cognitive communication difficulties and dysfluency. You will also provide support around alternative and augmentative communication, and provide training and support to patients, families and carers.

You will be working in a range of settings including patient’s own homes, nursing and residential homes, in clinic and with inpatients at our Community Hospitals.

You will be able to work closely with other relevant professionals, including dietetics, the neuro-rehabilitation and community rehabilitation teams, community nursing, and colleagues in the acute Speech and Language Therapy team in Colchester Hospital.

You will be very well supported with regular peer and personal supervision and supported in completing your dysphagia training and NQP competencies. You will be encouraged to attend relevant Clinical Excellence Networks and other training to further develop your specialist knowledge

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.



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