Specialist / Highly Speech and Language Therapist

• Post: Specialist / Highly Speech & Language Therapist (Band 6 / Band 7 equivalent)
• Salary: £40,966-£50,632 per year (dependent on experience)
• Contract: Full time, permanent

Due to the opening of a new service, an exciting opportunity has become available for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our team at Cygnet Hospital Taunton.

This role is suitable for a Specialist SLT who is interested in consolidating their practice or an established Specialist SLT who ready to take the next step in their career to a Highly Specialist role.

Cygnet Taunton is opening a new 15 bed neuro cognitive service, which will provide comprehensive, long term inpatient care for older adults living with complex cognitive and neurological conditions alongside a psychiatric sequela. The Neurocognitive Health Pathway offers patients an improved quality of life and improved functionality often not easily available to them due to their complex psychiatric and physical presentations.

Treatment and therapy is provided to optimise their abilities and reduce the impact of the neuro degenerative diagnosis they have; providing a stabilisation of symptoms and symptom management which reduces complications and preserves independence as long as possible. Care and treatment is delivered within a safe, structured, and therapeutic environment by an interdisciplinary team.

• Work directly with a specialist caseload of patients with complex needs to assess speech, communication, language, and eating, drinking, swallowing (EDS) needs.
• Deliver input in line with the Cygnet SLT pathway for neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative services.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to support implementation of management approaches and upskill workforce.
• Participate in large scale projects and company wide SLT service initiatives.
• Receive high quality supervision and support with CPD.

• Degree or postgraduate diploma (or equivalent) in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Registration with HCPC and membership of RCSLT.
• Competency to independently assess and manage EDS needs (essential).
• Experience with older adults, neurology or neurodegenerative conditions and high level of clinical SLT knowledge.
• Understanding of Positive Behaviour Support and person centred planning.
• Strong team player with genuine desire to help others.

• Salary £40,966-£50,632 per year (DOE).
• Excellent clinical supervision, CPD and developmental opportunities.
• Routine service meetings and peer support.
• Opportunity to personalise resource toolkit.
• Paid CEN membership.
• Active involvement in service development, QI initiatives and research opportunities.
• Employee rewards and discount benefits scheme.
• Company pension scheme.
• Full induction training.
• Free meals and free on site parking on shift.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS and reference check and an offer of employment will be subject to successful clearance.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.