Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Are you interested in commencing or further developing your tracheostomy and instrumental swallow assessment skills?

Are you looking for experience in a new clinical setting?

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist cardio-thoracic medical, surgical and transplant centre providing care nationwide. You will be working with patient cohorts including cardiothoracic surgery, transplant, ECMO, respiratory and ventilatory failure. We are looking for a therapist who is either looking to commence or further develop their tracheostomy, videofluoroscopy (VFSS) and fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) competencies, alongside managing their own patient caseload. Instrumental assessments are a key part of our care provision and are carried out on patients with a variety of complex needs. You will be working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team who strive for excellence and innovation, with the patient at the forefront of everything that we do. We encourage innovative thinking and contribution towards service development to ensure that we are evolving as a team to provide high quality speech and language therapy provision. You will have extensive opportunity to gain clinical skills with complex patients; in particular tracheostomy, VFSS and FEES competencies.

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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