Speech and Language Therapy Critical Care Lead

The role is for a band 7 Critical Care Speech and Language Therapy Lead working for Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a national centre of excellence for cardio-thoracic medicine and surgical care. It is also a national centre for cardio-thoracic transplantation. You will be working within a dynamic multi-disciplinary team to help implement the highest quality of care provision. Instrumental assessments are a key part of care provision and are carried on patients with complex needs. The role will involve leading in the service development and auditing of Speech and Language Therapy provision in critical care and cardiac surgery.

Have you got a strong desire to further establish your tracheostomy and instrumental swallow knowledge and competencies?

Within the team, we encourage innovative thinking toward service development from all members of the team. You will have the opportunity to gain leadership skills and be encouraged to present at a national and international conferences. You will be supported in publication and research that builds on the excellent speech and language therapy provision at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust., 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.

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