Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Senior Speech & Language Therapist (Rotational)
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Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SLT)
Are you passionate about providing a high quality Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) service to adult inpatients? Are you looking for the chance to develop your career in a prestigious London Trust with access to highly skilled clinicians and multiple learning opportunities?
We are looking for a Specialist SLT to join our Adult Service in a rotational role based at Charing Cross Hospital. This post rotates between the three clinical areas of Adult Acute (admissions, general medical/surgical, elderly care, respiratory, critical care, neurology and neurosurgery), Stroke (Hyper-acute and Acute Stroke unit), and Neurorehabilitation (16-bedded Level 2 Charing Cross Neuro-rehabilitation unit). These rotations are 12 months in length.
Responsibilities
As a valued member of the speech & language therapy and multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to multidisciplinary working, further developing your clinical skills and actively participating in service development and training others. Staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in CPD activities and audit and research. In addition, the post-holder will provide support/supervision for rehabilitation assistants as well as students on placement.
- Independently manage a caseload of adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing difficulties of neurological/medical/surgical origin, demonstrating specialist knowledge and skill underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
- Provide specialist assessment and treatment for patients with adult acquired communication and swallowing problems.
- Support the provision of instrumental assessments on site as clinically appropriate and as required by the service, including identifying appropriate patients, under-taking joint assessments, analysis, reporting and feedback.
- Work in collaboration with other members of the MDT to provide an integrated service for patients, participating in joint clinics, ward rounds, multi-disciplinary assessment/treatment, family/ carer support and education, attending regular meetings and case conferences as appropriate.
- Participate in quality improvement, clinical governance projects, audit and research as required by the Clinical Service Lead for Adult Speech & Language Therapy.
- Support the training and development of speech and language therapy students on placement and of rehabilitation assistants, as required.
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Requirements
Suitable applicants will have post-graduate experience of working with adults with acquired communication and swallowing disorders, be interested in acute and sub-acute neuro-rehabilitation and committed to multi-disciplinary team working.
Benefits
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- Flexible working
- Wellbeing
- Staff recognition scheme
- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities
Equal Opportunities
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental Sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Karima Collins
- Job title: Clinical lead speech & language therapist
- Email address: Karima.collins@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0203 311 1760
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