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SalaryManchester Local Care Organisation has recently received secured investment into its Community stroke and Neurology Services, and this gives us the ability to build a new multidisciplinary team of dedicated and skilled rehabilitation professionals.
This is a unique opportunity for you to be involved in developing and shaping a new service focused on delivering quality care to people with stroke and neurological conditions in Manchester. We are looking for dynamic and motivated staff to work with us to achieve our vision of Manchester being a forerunner in the provision of neurological rehabilitation.
The services will be locality based with the investment being used to enhance existing service provision in central locality
We have a strong framework of supervision and professional leadership and access to a wide range of training and development opportunities.
To be a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in the field of adult acquired communication/swallowing disorders.
To act as an autonomous practitioner with specialist knowledge, skills and experience, assessing, diagnosing and managing patients on the Speech and Language therapy caseload.
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of one’s professional and clinical work, working to agreed national and professional standards.
To plan, deliver and evaluate clinical audit, research activities and in-service training within the specialist area.
To provide training and supervision to rehabilitation assistants and students.
Work with the senior specialist Speech and Language Therapist in the Central Manchester community stroke and neuro service to organise and deliver speech therapy interventions.
The post involves working as part of the Central Manchester community stroke team.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you will benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We are proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we are excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and well-being and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
This advert closes on Thursday 25 Jan 2024
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