Clinical Expert Speech

Are you looking to develop your skills as a Clinical Expert Speech and Language Therapist in stroke?
- Do you want to develop skills in team leadership?
- Are you interested in developing skills in videofluoroscopy and FEES?
- Are you looking to become part of an established, friendly, supportive and sociable team?

If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you within our service

This post has cross-site responsibility for the provision of Speech and Language Therapy in the clinical area of stroke. This encompasses the whole stroke pathway from acute stroke units to community and includes home visits, telehealth and outpatient clinics in both North and North East Lincolnshire, providing intensive and innovative interventions as clinical need dictates.

In this role, you will identify and implement evidence-based practice and lead on research and quality improvements related to SLT and stroke. You will be expected to work as a member of the stroke multidisciplinary team and participate in relevant meetings eg. Stroke Governance; Quality and Safety groups.

You will deliver expert-level Speech and Language Therapy input to highly complex patients and will also be expected to provide some support for caseloads in the acute setting, including patients with complex dysphagia.

You will share the leadership of our well-established, weekly SLT-led Videofluoroscopy clinics available on both sites and will join us in developing our new and exciting FEES service.

Supported by the SLT site team leads, you would be expected to lead the SLT stroke team, managing day-to-day issues and providing some line management duties e.g appraisals, supervision. The post-holder will be an essential team member within the service, working closely with Band 7 peers and the Operational Lead to lead the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Service, ensuring equity of services.

Travel base to be agreed on appointment.

We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
- Develop and lead on the provision of an efficient and effective Speech and Language therapy service to patients in agreed service area.
- Attend ward rounds and MDT meetings on both main hospital sites or in the community as required.
- Practice autonomously demonstrating expert problem solving and clinical decision making skills while demonstrating professional accountability and responsibility.
- Be a role model for the wider team by promoting a positive research culture.
- Identify, promote and embed evidence and identify impact measures using findings to enhance future activity.
- Identify and support the achievement of learning needs of individuals/team in response to service need and personal development planning.
- Identify priorities for evidence based audit and research projects, taking a lead to ensure these are undertaken to promote continuous quality improvement in the service.
- Propose practice and policy changes that impact on the wider service and implement changes in own area.
- Act as a change agent.
- Provide leadership for quality improvement and service development to enhance people's wellbeing and experiences of healthcare

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

Following consultation the Health and Social Care Act 2008 has been amended, which includes the provision that from 11th November 2021 all workers in CQC registered care homes are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless a medical exemption applies. If appointed to a role which includes deployment to care homes you will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination or medical exemption in order to undertake the role. This evidence will be required po