Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Job Opportunity: Chronic Respiratory Disease Specialist
We are looking for a driven, dynamic, and enthusiastic individual who has a passion, and clinical interest, in the specialty of chronic respiratory disease. The successful postholder will work within a small team of highly skilled speech and language therapists, working closely with other allied health professionals to provide highly specialist care to patients.
This is an exciting opportunity to extend skills with tertiary level patients including complex dysphagia and upper airway disorders across the varied field of respiratory medicine, including complex asthma, COPD (including lung volume reduction), neuromuscular disease, and ILD. We offer opportunities to participate in regular objective instrumental swallow assessments (FEES and VFS) – please contact us for more information if you think this could be the role for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Work as an integrated member of the multi-professional therapy team, providing therapy to patients with chronic and severe respiratory conditions at Royal Brompton Hospital.
- Receive operational and professional management from the Clinical Specialist and Adult Clinical Lead SLTs.
- Lead the assessment, treatment, and management of swallowing, voice, and upper airway disorders throughout the patient pathway in both outpatient and inpatient settings, including in-reach to critical care.
- Utilize significant experience, in-depth knowledge, and skills in advanced respiratory disease, including non-invasive (NIV) and invasive ventilation (IV) via a tracheostomy for respiratory muscle weakness.
- Complete competency-based learning and substantial experience with instrumental dysphagia assessments (Level 2b FEES practitioner or equivalent) and significant experience in video fluoroscopy. Familiarity with using MBSImP in practice is desirable.
- Manage inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) and perform laryngoscopy with provocation.
- Provide line management and clinical supervision of the band 5 and 6 Speech Language Therapists in the respiratory SLT service.
- Support other services and sites, including Harefield and Guys Hospitals, as required by service needs.
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About Us
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton, and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research, and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts.
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We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching, and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007.
Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment, and research.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits contact:
- Name: Gemma Korff
- Job title: Therapy Lead
- Email address: gemma.korff@nhs.net
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