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Advanced Specialist Speech & Language Therapist – Adult Acute & Community Care – Guernsey
Sanctuary Personnel, a leading recruitment agency with a 4.9/5 TrustPilot rating from nearly 1,000 reviews, is seeking an experienced and dedicated Advanced Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join our client’s Adult Acute and Community Care team in Guernsey on a full-time, permanent basis.
About the Client
Our client provides high-quality, patient-centered care across Guernsey's acute and community settings, focusing on adults with complex needs. Known for its multidisciplinary approach and supportive work environment, the healthcare team is committed to delivering exceptional outcomes for patients and families. Working here offers a unique opportunity to practice in a close-knit, collaborative environment while enjoying Guernsey’s excellent quality of life.
Salary: £52,932 - £69,605 per annum.
About the Role
If you are passionate about enhancing adult patients' communication abilities, managing dysphagia, and working across both acute and community settings, this role is for you. You will manage your own caseload, delivering patient-centred care in diverse settings, and collaborating closely with a dedicated healthcare team.
Key Responsibilities
- Specialist Therapy: Provide advanced speech and language therapy to adult patients, managing complex cases and developing tailored care plans that make a real impact.
- Dysphagia Expertise: Serve as the in-house expert on dysphagia, supporting colleagues and offering clinical insights on challenging cases.
- Interdisciplinary Care: Work closely with nurses and other health professionals to deliver comprehensive care for adults with complex needs across acute and community settings.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Supervise and guide a team of SLT professionals, mentoring junior staff and students to foster growth and development.
- Service Improvement: Contribute to service enhancements by shaping policies and procedures, continually improving patient care standards.
- Patient & Family Support: Offer empathetic and adaptable support to patients and families, especially in sensitive or challenging situations.
- Continuous Learning: Stay current through professional development and share your expertise with other healthcare staff, carers, and patients.
- Research & Audit: Engage in research and audits to further advance the field of speech and language therapy.
Requirements
- Essential:
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy, with a Certificate to Practise.
- Certified membership with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
- HCPC registration.
- Postgraduate qualification in dysphagia.
- Significant experience in adult acute and community speech and language therapy, with strong expertise in dysphagia.
- Desirable:
- Five years of experience, with knowledge of voice, post-chemo, and radiotherapy caseloads.
- Experience as a student practice educator.
- Driving licence (preferred for community settings).
Why Join?
This is a fantastic opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, innovative healthcare environment. Working in Guernsey offers not only professional rewards but also an exceptional lifestyle with a unique balance of work and leisure.
Apply Now
If you are interested, apply today or reach out to Craig Osborne at Sanctuary Personnel for more details.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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