This week we are celebrating our community based colleagues! Big thanks to Ruby & Jenn for all the hard work they do to support those accessing SLT services in community! #communityhealthservicesweek

📝📆😄SAVE THE DATE!!⭐️ - Monday 9th December - Face to face study day - RCSLT London Theme of the day 'Maximisimg instrumental assessment'. Keep tuned... more details to follow soon....

SLTs Daisy & Hannah had a fantastic day promoting the profession at Blackpool Sixth healthcare careers day. Thank you to those who have stopped by for a chat today. Visit: rcslt.org/speech-and-lan… to find out more about how you can become a speech & language therapist! #SLT

Happy #AHPday2024 to all the fantastic AHPs out there! 🥳 We have had a brilliant AHP showcase 🌟 NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈 today, with lots of teams sharing their work 👏 Thanks to Simon Hayward for organising! CSSDivisionBVH Nick Lane George Rogers @k1rk11 Jo Wild

Would you like to be a part of a SLT team who are as passionate about person-centred care as you? We have an exciting Band 7 opportunity to lead our community SLT team! Find out more & apply for this post here: blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/Working-With-U…

Happy malnutrition awareness week! Our SLTs have joined forced with Blackpool Dietitians to share how we modify diet and fluids for patients with dysphagia to meet their nutritional and hydration needs safely! 🍎☕️

ℹ️ If you need to travel to our emergency department please consider bringing a phone charging cable, any medication you are on including inhalers and a payment method to use the vending machines to make your wait more comfortable.

Huge congratulations to our own lovely Ella & colleague Helen who celebrated their achievements at their Critical Care PG cert graduation ceremony this week! 🎉

Merry Christmas from the adult SLT team & wishing everyone a happy & healthy new year 🎄💫

Urgent Treatment centres could be an alternative to the emergency department depending on your condition? If you’re worried about an urgent medical concern, please contact NHS 111, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For more information please visit: buff.ly/3SS6lzg

Thanks to Lauren Kuepper, our acute band 5 and apprentice SLTs had the chance to learn about pharyngeal electrical stimulation yesterday. We are looking forward to developing PES as part of our toolkit across the hospital!

Happy National Apprenticeship Week! #NAW2025 “I love the fact that I am learning … while building up my work based experiences” We are so proud of our SLT apprentice Nichola who studies at the University of Sheffield and has shared her experiences: tinyurl.com/3wzhe9za

What a busy few weeks we have had for careers! Our team recently attended The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan SLT career day & St George's School NHS careers day! Did you see us there? If not keep your eyes peeled for any future careers events 👀🧑‍⚕️ #careers #mysltday #nhscareers

Next week is nutrition & hydration week and swallowing awareness day! Join us on the mezzanine on Wednesday where we will be sharing all things SLT and play some games to win some prizes! #swallowawarenessday2025 N&H Week

Yesterday was swallowing awareness day 💧🍎 we had a great day sharing dysphagia friendly crisps and a swallowing quiz! We were even visited by Betty the therapy dog 🐶 did you see us there? N&H Week #swallowaware2025

There is plenty that family members can do to speed up the discharge process Check in advance with any local charities or organisations that may offer a supporting service such as LF&R which offers a home fire assessment.

Today is dysarthria awareness day and our lovely Stroke Unit SLTs have had a great day spreading awareness on the unit! The MDT shared some ideas on what they can do to support our patients with dysarthria #dysarthriaawarenessday #BlackpoolTeachingHospitals #teamBTH

We are so grateful to have received a discount on a piece of artwork from one of our inpatients and lovely to have him visit the department to see it himself! Thanks to the SLT team for raising the funds to add this artwork to our space 💜RCSLT 💙 NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈

Last week was Dementia Awareness, we were on the mezzanine raising awareness for our patients with dementia who experience difficulties with swallowing and communication 🍎🗣️💭#dementiaactionweek NHS Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 💙🌈

SLT Daisy was invited back to Birmingham City University to give a talk to the third year cohort about navigating professional life as a Newly Qualified Practitioner! 👩‍🎓🗣️✏️ #mysltday