Speech and Language Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, welcoming and innovative team. We have a 9-month fixed term contract available, working 23.25 hours per week, for a Speech and Language Therapist, across both the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Community Team and Community Stroke team based in Nottingham city. The service provides high quality, evidence based, swallowing and communication assessments, rehabilitation and interventions, for adults with a range of disorders such as stroke, dementias, Parkinson's, FND, long-covid, respiratory and adults who stammer. Patients are seen at home, in clinics, care homes, and in therapeutic groups including adult dysfluency, post stroke total communication skills, and a Parkinson's voice maintenance group. We also offer intensive rehabilitation programmes where appropriate, and training to care home staff and other professionals. There are many opportunities for training and development including regular one-to-one supervision, shadowing, monthly SLT clinical meetings, and potential specialist training in clinical interventions such as Speak OUT and dysphagia rehabilitation. The successful applicant will need to be flexible, innovative, organised and keen to learn for the benefit of your patients, Some duties will be dependent on your level of experience and competence. We will provide training and development opportunities. Duties may include:

• Communication and swallowing assessments
• Clinical interventions/treatments for adults with acquired swallowing and communication needs and those who stammer
• Caseload management
• Training for carers, family members and other professionals
We work closely with other community health and social care teams, and the voluntary sector. Our clients present with a wide range of aetiologies including stroke, end of life, dementia, neurological, mental health and respiratory conditions.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives. CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.