Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist- Community Stroke Rehab
A Vacancy at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.
The Community Stroke Rehab team in Enfield are looking for an enthusiastic and stroke specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the team. The team are based at St Michael's Primary care centre with ease of parking for staff and access to Enfield Borough.It is in close proximity to the M25 and has good transport links to Herts and central London.
The Community Stroke Rehab Team provides stroke specialist rehabilitation for Enfield residents aged 18+. Care is provided in patient’s home and local communities dependent on their functional goals. It is a friendly multidisciplinary team with generic rehabilitation assistants and a speech and language therapy assistant to support patients to carry out treatment plans set by the therapists.We work closely with adult community therapies who are also located within St Michael's.
There is planned expansion of the team , following investment into Enfield Community Therapies Services to include neuro psychology provision. The team has been part of a NCL wide funded NHSe project which is nationally leading on new models of rehab and stroke care.
To provide a very high standard of Speech and language therapy care to stroke survivors and their carers/family in a community setting, meeting the needs of the multicultural and diverse population.
Together with other senior staff, to act as a resource for specialist advice to the rest of the stroke community rehabilitation service (CSRT), therapy services, and others within wider multidisciplinary services.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level.Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Please refer to the attached Job description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Nov 2024