Apprentice Speech

**The closing date is 9th Mar 2025**

**Anticipated Interview date(s) TBC**

**Job summary**:
Senior Rehabilitation Assistant - Speech and Language Therapy Apprenticeship Opportunity - Neuro Early Supported Discharge Team

A valid UK driving licence is essential for this community-based role.

If you are looking to develop a career in Speech and Language Therapy, this is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience while training for professional registration.

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
The role involves working within a supportive MDT, delivering prescribed exercise and intervention programmes under the guidance of Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, a Neuropsychologist, and a Trainee Advanced Clinical Practice Nurse Specialist. If successful in securing an apprenticeship, the individual will increasingly focus on Speech and Language Therapy, with direct supervision from Band 6 and Band 7, oversight from the Professional Lead Speech and Language Therapist and exposure to the wider community Speech and Language Therapy services.

You will be employed on a 4-year fixed term contract for the duration of your apprenticeship. On completion of your apprenticeship, you will need to partake in the recruitment process within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to secure a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist position with a starting salary of £29,970.

Please see the separate Job Descriptions and Person Specifications attached for more detailed information. Please note the Band 4 Rehab Assistant is the role you will be in while you complete your apprenticeship, and the Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist is the Job Description once you are qualified.

**About us**:
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

**Job description**:
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
Criteria for Band 4 Rehab Assistant role:
Foundation Degree/Diploma or NVQ 3 with experience equivalent to a foundation degree level.

**Desirable**:
Neurological specific training e.g. equipment, gait re-education, handling, Neuro/Stroke Rehabilitation, LTC management, Palliative care, Postural management, Continence Care.

**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Experience of regular assessment and treatment of patients presenting with problems requiring therapeutic intervention, some of a complex nature.

Recent NHS experience of treating people with a range of stroke / neurological needs e.g. continence, mobility, balance problems, cognitive deficits, dysphagia.

Relevant experience of working within a multidisciplinary team in either a hospital or community setting (some of which has been gained within a UK setting).

Working within a multi-professional team.

**Desirable**:
Supervision and training of others.

Involvement in regional or national clinical bodies e.g. clinical interest groups, conferences etc.

**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:
Demonstrate strategies for effective organisation of own workload and that of junior staff on a day-to-day basis.

Demonstrate and provide evidence of skill development and provide examples of good practice where key skills have been applied.

Ability to act on own initiative and take responsibility e.g. contacting a senior clinician / other service when a client requires urgent attention.

Able to use strategies to deal with difficult situations and appropriately seek support and advic