Service Lead Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in ESD

Are you an enthusiastic Speech & language Therapist and aspiring leader who would like to do something a little different? If this is you, NCH&C are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity within the Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team for a Clinical Lead for Speech and Language Therapy and shared Team Lead role.

Based in Norwich but covering the diverse area of Central Norfolk, the service supports stroke patients in their rehab for the first 6 weeks following discharge from hospital.

We are seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the multi-disciplinary team, consisting of physiotherapists, psychology, occupational therapists, rehab assistants, nursing and administrative support, to ensure the provision of a high quality service to stroke patients in their own homes.

The clinical role includes delivering assessment, treatment planning and rehabilitation to a varied clinical caseload of patients who have had a stroke. The Team Lead role involves operational management, leadership and service development. You will be working in partnership with other therapy and nursing team leaders.

We work closely with the acute teams, ensuring a seamless patient journey for people after stroke. We also have links with the voluntary sector.

You will be supported by the Stroke service lead and have regular supervision. We are committed to developing your skills and our service.

The role is part time with core hours being 08:30-16:30.

Main duties of the job

• To work within, and provide professional leadership to, a stroke interdisciplinary Early Supported Discharge Team (ESD) to provide high quality specialist rehabilitation to patients following a stroke in their own home/communities, in order to support patients to achieve their optimal level of independence and maximum rehabilitation potential.



• To work collaboratively across the Central Norfolk Integrated Stroke Service to ensure a seamless provision of stroke services across the acute hospital, inpatient rehabilitation and early supported discharge teams and contribute to service wide developments.



• To conduct and ensure the assessment, implementation, evaluation of evidence-based treatment programmes for patients following a stroke (who may have a range of impairments and complex health needs).



• To act as a professional lead within the stroke services, contributing to service development, data collection, supervising and supporting junior staff and students.



• To in-reach into and work collaboratively with the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUHFT) and in-patient rehabilitation stroke unit to facilitate seamless transfer of care into the Early Supported Discharge team and ensure high quality service provision at all times.
  
  Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust (NCH&C) provides community-based NHS health and care.


Our Vision

"To improve the quality of people's lives, in their homes and community, by providing the best in integrated health and social care"

We exist to improve the lives of our patients, whenever and wherever they need us. We are proud to be trusted to enter their homes and be part of their communities and we are dedicated to improving patients' lives by providing excellent standards of NHS health and care.

CQC Outstanding

NCH&C is proud to be the first standalone NHS Community Trust in the UK to achieve an 'Outstanding' rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our focus is on continually improving the quality of care we offer to local people and on improving access to that care, helping people to move seamlessly from one service to another.