Job Description

Are you looking to grow your foundation skills working with adults across a range of settings and specialties?



At Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust, the Speech and Language Therapy Service is excited to recruit an additional band 5 therapist into our rotational structure in order to support us to continue our delivery of high quality patient care.

In our team, we focus on:

Setting our goals around what matters to the patient



Identifying vulnerable patients early on for intervention



Being visible and integrated within our MDTs

Our core band 5 rotations are each 6 months long and focus on:

Hospital inpatients and ENT voice outpatients



Stroke rehabilitation pathway (HASU to ICSS)



Community and care homes



Experience working with an adult caseload and robust undergraduate knowledge and experience with a range of acquired communication, voice and swallowing disorders will be essential. A successful candidate will be joining an SLT team with a strong commitment to integrated working and quality improvement. There will be excellent support as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system . You will have the opportunity to work alongside highly specialist staff and integrate into a variety of specialist multi-disciplinary teams across a range of clinical settings.



Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country - one of the country's most culturally diverse areas. It's a friendly and welcoming place - a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.



We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.



Our values - Ambition, Respect and Compassion - are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.



Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to "Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population." It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It's what makes us unique.



We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we're 'with you all the way' we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.



Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for details regarding the main roles and responsibilities of this post.



The trust provides a range of 7-day services, involving our Speech and Language Therapists. Post-holders will be required to participate in these services when an appropriate level of clinical competence has been achieved.