Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

We are delighted to be recruiting a part-time community Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (3 days a week) to join our friendly and supportive team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a service that delivers care across both community and acute settings, providing a truly integrated approach and ensuring patients receive support throughout their journey.

As a valued member of our team, you will manage a diverse caseload of people with a range of acquired and progressive communication and swallowing difficulties. The role offers excellent opportunities to develop specialist skills in both communication and dysphagia management.

As well as being connected to the wider Speech and Language Therapy service we work closely with the ECCH community Neurology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), this integrated approach enhances patient outcomes, supports shared learning and creates a rewarding working environment for clinicians.

Main duties of the job

For the right candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of adults with acquired and progressive communication and swallowing disorders across a range of community settings within the East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) locality.

Working as part of a supportive and skilled team, you will deliver specialist assessment and intervention in community clinics across Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft and Beccles, care homes and patients' own homes. The role offers a varied and rewarding caseload that enables you to develop your expertise while providing person-centred care. You will be working independently with complex communication and dysphagia presentations, helping individuals maintain their independence, wellbeing and quality of life.

You will also play a key role in shaping the future workforce by providing support to band 5 Speech and Language Therapists and students from the University of East Anglia (UEA).

We are looking for a motivated and experienced clinician with a passion for working in community and delivering high-quality care. The successful post holder will have appropriate postgraduate training and experience in complex communication intervention and be competent to a minimum of proficient level on the RCSLT eating, drinking and swallowing competency framework.

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.