Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Speech & Language Therapist to join the SLT team within our band 6 rotations. The rotations include Stroke (HASU & ASU), Neuro Cardiac, Acute (General & Specialist Medicine), Neuro Rehabilitation at The Wolfson Rehabilitation Unit, Acute paediatrics and Community Outpatients within Wandsworth Community SLT team.

The postholder will be part of a progressive and supportive speech and language team consisting of 30+ SLTs across a range of specialities. Great emphasis is placed on supervision and professional development along with a commitment to innovation and research. Experience working with adults and /or paediatrics with communication and swallowing impairments is essential as is dysphagia training. Working closely with patients, carers families and key agencies is an important part of the work. Excellent communication skills are essential and an interest in the process as well as the outcomes of rehabilitation is desirable.

For further information, please contact Hannah Berry, Professional and Clinical Lead for SLT at Hannah.Berry@stgeorges.nhs.uk.

Main duties of the job

post holder will have responsibility for providing a specialist speech and language therapy service to paediatric and adult patients within St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. They will be flexible, with a commitment to new ways of working and have an innovative approach to patient centred care and efficient service delivery. This service comprises of paediatric and adult patients with acute, chronic, and progressive conditions that affect feeding, swallowing, speech, and language. The SLT will be working with paediatric and adult patients across all medical specialities, including but not limited to neurosciences, stroke, community outpatient, senior health, trauma, respiratory, ENT, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, general paediatrics, PICU, oncology and surgery.

The post holder will independently manage, dependant on the specific rotation, an Adult orpaediatric caseload and provide specialist SLT knowledge, skills, and expertise to colleagues and support the SLT service as a whole. There will be opportunity to participate in weekly instrumental assessment clinics.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.