Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Are you a passionate and experienced Speech and Language Therapist ready to further your career in an internationally renowned cardiothoracic centre rated as Outstanding across all domains by the CQC. If so, we want to hear from you.

We are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to deliver a service to patients across critical care, cardiology, cardio-thoracic surgery, transplant, and respiratory medicine. We welcome applications from current Band 7's and experienced Band 6's with a passion for transplant and cardiac surgery, with experience in acute care across multiple specialities, who are motivated to learn and progress., Essential:

• HCPC-registered Speech and Language Therapist
• BSc SALT / Grad.Dip.SALT / pre-reg MSc SALT
• Videofluoroscopic Swallow Study competencies.
• Tracheostomy competencies
• Level 2A FEES nasoendoscopsist competencies.
• Evidence of significant experience in speech and language therapy management of patients in critical care.
• Management of a complex dysphagia caseload.
• Evidence of excellent communication, leadership and management skills across the multi-professional team.
• Engagement in post-graduate education relevant to critical care including attending, presenting and organising relevant courses, study days and conferences.
• Experience in leading team and department audit / service improvement/ research projects
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour