Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £50,008 – £56,908 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trust to work for. This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Job overview
A new opportunity has arisen for a full-time band 7 Speech and Language Therapist in the Working Age Hospital at Silverwood Hospital in Chertsey. This post is for 37.5 hours per week.
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to develop and lead the dysphagia and communication pathways alongside a multi-disciplinary health team consisting of support workers, nursing, psychiatry, occupational therapy, psychology, physiotherapy and dietetics.
The successful candidate will be joining a supportive team of Speech and Language Therapists already working elsewhere in the learning disability, neurodevelopmental, children and young persons, older age adults, and forensic services. The post holder will benefit from:
- Robust individual and group supervision opportunities
- Appraisal programme
- Opportunity to undertake level 5 Leadership training
- Active encouragement to access CPD and an excellent in house offering for soft skills courses
- Access to a newly appointed AHP lead
We welcome applicants who can demonstrate relevant experience from other clinical specialisms. The post will also be supported by the Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy and the AHP lead.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have a high degree of autonomy, providing high quality clinical care to people that use our services, as well as having a key role in supporting the development of skills across the Hospital Service, in relation to screening for and meeting the eating, drinking, swallowing and communication needs of people using our services.
You will also be contributing to service and policy development.
The post holder will be passionate about the rights and welfare of people with mental health needs and see person-centred care as a cornerstone of their practice.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please check the job description & person specification document for more information on the requirements for this job.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post qualification clinical experience working with with people who have mental health needs
- Experience of leading clinical practice, service development or project work
- Highly specialist knowledge of relevant assessment and treatment models for people with mental health needs
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to others
- Experience of supporting students on placement
- Experience of representing Speech and Language Therapy within a service and Trust
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Speech and Language Therapy professional qualification and further training and experience to masters level or equivalent
- A qualification in the assessment and management of dysphagia
- HCPC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Additional leadership/management study
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
