Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Speech and Language Therapist to work in Preston on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Speech and Language Therapist job is up to £49,119 per annum.
Benefits of the role:
- 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Excellent training and support
- Group life assurance
- Eye voucher scheme
- Company Pension
- Long service and staff awards
- Free parking
- Nationwide employee staff discounts incl. eating out and shopping
- Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector and armed forces with discounts online and in-store
Key Responsibilities:
- Work within a specialist clinical area as an autonomous professional with support and supervision (which may be remote) from a more senior SaLT for more complex cases
- Accept professional accountability and responsibility.
- Apply the specialist neurorehabilitation model, demonstrating knowledge of current research findings, and best practice in the field.
- With supervision as required, to manage a caseload of People We Support with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour.
- Use evidence-based practice, service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate intervention.
- With supervision as required, undertake comprehensive assessments, considering environment, context and future plans, of People
Requirements of the SLT:
- Use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
- Knowledge and application of Speech and Language assessments and interventions using clinical reasoning
- Knowledge of models of practice and assessment tools relevant to discipline & clinical area
- Knowledge of evidence-based practice and how to apply to clinical practice
- An ability to work autonomously and to set own and support others’ priorities
- An ability to confidently assess and manage risk in relation to physical performance
- An ability to organise, coordinate and respond efficiently to complex information
- At least one years’ experience in management of dysphagia
- Awareness of current legislation and professional ethics and their application in practice
- Competent IT skills
- Knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on current practice
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Desirable experience of working in a relevant setting, which can include practice placements
Contact:
This Speech and Language Therapist job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
