Adult Speech and Language Therapy Apprentice

6 months ago

Ashford, United Kingdom Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you caring, compassionate, motivated and interested in developing your career within the health service? Join us at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust, train to become a qualified Speech & Language Therapist (SLT).

We are recruiting for an SLT Apprentice within the Adult speech and language therapy team.

The SLT apprenticeship is a new and innovative route to ‘Learn while you Earn’ and combines 4 years of clinical employment, work based learning, and academic learning. Once your apprenticeship is completed, you will become a Band 5 SLT within the Trust, continuing your career with us.

As an apprentice you'll have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge, skills and experience during placements across the trust and our partner providers. You will be provided with dedicated time to study for a Bachelor’s degree in Speech & Language Therapy.

Please carefully review the qualification requirements in the person specification as these are also the entry requirements for the apprenticeship.

The Adult Speech and Language Therapy (ASLT) service in east and west Kent provides services to people over the age of 18 who require assessment, diagnosis and management of acquired swallowing and communication disorders.

We see patients in a range of settings including outpatient clinics, community hospitals, care homes and in their own homes.

As ASLT, we are a team of more than 20 SLTs and associate/assistant practitioners across Kent. We provide regular supervision and have specialist advisors in clinical areas including dysphasia, dysphagia, motor speech disorders, dementia, dysfluency and voice.

You will need to provide certificates as evidence of your qualifications as part of the recruitment process. The University of Sheffield also require:

- A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced Disclosure check (or EU equivalent)
- A satisfactory occupational health screening report

Whilst you will be based in one specific team, your placements will give you a variety of learning environments working across both internal and external clinical placements to gain an appreciation of the different areas of the local healthcare service.

One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values C ompassionate A spirational R esponsive E xcellent.

We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.

Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both.

Looking for professional development? We can support that too Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

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Good luck We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity

Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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