Speech and language therapist for adults with acquired swallowing and communication disorders. Former journalist, views mine.
Joined September 2008
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11 Jul 2024
I've been tweeting my week as speech and language therapist at @BHRUT_SLT (follow us!) working in stroke rehab. I get asked A LOT about career changes - if you are thinking of one then I can't advocate it enough! Better still if it is into #SLT 💙 #NHS🩵healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore…
9 Jul 2024
Hello 👋 Sarah @shearmans here for this week's takeover. A bit about me:
- I'm a new(ish)ly qualified SLT.
- I joined BHRUT 9 months ago.
-I recently rotated into early supported discharge for stroke.
- Prior to SLT I was a journalist for 10 years.
-Follow along for #mysltday s
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11 Jul 2024
Obviously having the means to do a career change is necessary and it's not possible/easy for everyone but there is some funding available nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-s…
And some apprenticeships rcslt.org/speech-and-languag… #AHP #wespeechies #rcslt #SLT
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11 Jul 2024
Plus a tad extra funding for parents, and means tested support to go towards childcare
nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-s…
gov.uk/learner-support
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26 Apr 2024
Just wrapped up my first SLT rotation on adult acute. Interesting, busy, fun and lots and lots of yoghurt! Up next, stroke rehab early supported discharge @BHRUT_SLT
#mysltday
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8 Mar 2024
Two years on and this is still the best ever Int Women's Day campaign
6 Mar 2023
Whenever an employer tweets about #IWD, their most recent gender pay gap is published as a quote tweet.
UK companies with more than 250 employees are required to publish this data on gender-pay-gap.service.gov.u…, and that's where @PayGapApp pulls the data from. (2/8)
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24 Nov 2023
Recently joined this team - lovely bunch, I can attest. More vacancies 👇
23 Nov 2023
WE’RE HIRING!!!
Quick break in my Twitter takeover to announce that that we have 2xB6 FIXED TERM positions out for advert!
⏰ Protcetd CPD time
👫 SUPPORTIVE team
📆 Monthly Supervison
🏥 Service Devleopemt/ Project work
💃🏼🕺 social outings!
#SLTjobs #AHP #bestteam #mysltday
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20 Jul 2023
And that's a wrap! After two years of toil and transcriptions, I finally finished my #SLT @CityUniLondon MSc today 🎉
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5 Jul 2023
🎉Happy Birthday to the wonderful NHS!🎉 So excited to be joining the workforce very soon #NHS75
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4 Jun 2023
Looks promising, will be interesting to see the outcome theguardian.com/society/2023…
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23 May 2023
Late(ish) to it, but the Cost of the Crown podcast series by @guardianaudio @MaeveMCC is Excellent reporting, gets around the opacity of Royal family's finances to reveal their eye-popping wealth and greed theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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21 Apr 2023
Farwell to my blue tick and all the spoils it brought me (...none) bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65…
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30 Mar 2023
Springwatch in my household = tentatively watching chickenpox vesicles on my kids turn to scabs
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29 Mar 2023
"Science and ‘true love’ have two things in common: both are infatuated by passion, and both rely on trust" - fascinating/troubling look at fraudulent research ft.com/content/32440f74-7804…
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10 Mar 2023
Mind-boggling if true - documenting natural destruction is considered part of the rightwing culture war theguardian.com/media/2023/m…
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17 Feb 2023
Good to know the Tories haven't ruined absolutely everything theguardian.com/environment/…
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13 Dec 2022
Super impressive interview from @patcullen9 detailing 'bully boy' tactics of health sec✊
13 Dec 2022
‘I’m approaching Thursday with a very heavy heart. I never thought I would lead my wonderful profession on to picket lines, standing out in the cold & metaphorically being placed in the cold by the government’
@theRCN General Secretary, Pat Cullen, on Thursday's nurses strikes.
14 Nov 2022
Mind-boggling insight into an economic crisis, so well-reported: Who is robbing Lebanon’s banks? theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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27 Oct 2022
Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’ theguardian.com/environment/…
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19 Oct 2022
Excellent piece on government's sinister criminalisation of protest -by @GeorgeMonbiot. Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers than real ones? theguardian.com/commentisfre…