Speech and Language Therapist

Are you keen to gain a broad knowledge base and well-rounded skills in managing adults with communication and swallowing difficulties?

Are you looking to join a supportive and friendly team to develop your career in?

Then this is the job for you

Due to internal promotion, we have an exciting opportunity to join our adult speech and language therapy team at Weston General Hospital. We are looking to recruit a permanent full-time band 5 speech and language therapist to work with adults with swallowing and communication difficulties relating to neurological, general medical, and age-related conditions. The successful applicant will be working primarily with inpatients however there will also be opportunities to gain outpatient experience, including therapy groups for patients with Parkinson’s Disease.

We are part of the wider UHBW speech and language therapy service and benefit from close working with colleagues at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and St Michael's Hospital. Our teams include regional specialists in head and neck cancer, ENT conditions, and oncology and haematology. We run videofluoroscopy clinics within our service and are currently developing a FEES service at Weston General Hospital. We are a really friendly team who focus on providing excellent evidence-based care for our patients.

The band 5 SLT is a member of the SLT team and is responsible for the delivery of a high quality, comprehensive SLT service for UHBW. This clinical workload is augmented by a variety of teaching and training activities. The post holder will provide support to the inpatient and outpatient pathways with a focus on neurology, older people, and general medicine. They will be responsible for delivering SLT assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adults with swallow and communication difficulties.

**As part of our team, you would benefit from**:

- Structured and supportive 1:1 supervision with your clinical supervisor
- Peer supervision sessions with the three other band 5 speech and language therapists in our service
- Support in completing your RCSLT newly qualified practitioner framework and RCSLT dysphagia competencies
- Brilliant in-service training from other team members and multi-disciplinary colleagues
- Exciting CPD opportunities to support your development
- Lots of wellbeing support, including use of our flexi-time policy to support your work-life balance

For a detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.