Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Desired Skills: acute feeding swallowing

PE Global Healthcare is recruiting for a Senior Speech Therapist for a full-time contract role based in an acute setting in Waterford.

Candidates for appointment must:

Be registered or be eligible for registration as a Speech & Language Therapist by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU (https://www.coru.ie/)

AND

Have 3 years full-time (or an aggregate of 3 years full-time) post-qualification clinical experience.

AND

Candidates must have the requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability and professional ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

Post Requirements:

• Previous experience in assessing and managing communication and feeding, eating, drinking and swallowing disorders in the adult population in the Acute hospital setting

• Hold a dysphagia qualification or equivalent as outlined in “Standards of Practice for Speech & Language Therapists on the Management of Feeding, Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Disorders (Dysphagia)” Irish Association of Speech & Language Therapists (IASLT) 2007

• To have an interest in developing skills and clinical knowledge to a general inpatient and outpatient voice caseload.

If you are interested in being considered and meet the above requirements, please email ruth.barry@peglobal.net