Speech And Language Therapy Assistant

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly Speech and Language Therapy team as an SLT assistant. This will involve supporting adult inpatients and outpatients based at North Manchester General Hospital.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will work as part of the adult speech and language therapy (SLT) team whose role it is to provide assessment, rehabilitation, management and/or support to clients with communication and/or swallowing problems. The team sees patients in hospital wards, in outpatient settings, in their own homes, nursing homes and other community settings.

The postholder will develop through the acquisition of further skills, in the specialist area of Voice/Head and Neck.

The postholder will also be required to carry out administrative duties to support the team

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & 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 & 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’ll 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 & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets 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 wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.