Job summary
As a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist, you will join our Early Supported Discharge (ESD) Stroke Team based at Gravesham Community Hospital in Gravesend. This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role within a specialist community stroke service, supporting patients with communication and swallowing difficulties as they transition from hospital to home. You will manage a specialist caseload of patients following stroke, delivering expert assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation within a multidisciplinary team. This is a highly rewarding role where you will see the direct impact of your interventions, helping patients regain independence, improve quality of life and achieve meaningful goals in their own environment. Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will contribute to service development, support the growth of colleagues and rehabilitation assistants, and help shape the future of stroke rehabilitation services across North Kent.

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.