Job summary
- Main area
- Adult Speech and language therapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Bank: 0 days (epsom %sthelier)
- Hours
- Full time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 343-5542970-AL-DNM
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Roundshaw Health Centre,
- Town
- Sutton
- Salary
- £25.89 - £41.43 pro rata
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 31/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Adult Speech & Language Therapist - Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well‘ is the team vision which we work collectively to achieve. The Sutton Community Neuro therapy & Adult Speech & Language therapy service is a Multi disciplinary team offering specialist, comprehensive assessment & intervention. We work with adults in the Sutton area of South West London who have Neurological conditions &/or those with acquired communication, speech, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.
Main duties of the job
· To provide specialist Speech and Language therapy assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment for a caseload of adult patients with acquired communication and/or swallowing disorders within community settings.
· To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures in the areas of swallowing and communication disorders.
· To hold and manage a specialist caseload and be legally accountable for all clinical decisions and professional actions, seeking advice from senior colleagues as appropriate
· To identify SMART goals and offer an appropriate therapy programme, taking into account the level of understanding, motivation, insight, level of support and self-management potential.
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to create a health and care system built around the people and communities of Sutton and continues to evolve through system-wide collaboration and co-creation. Through this place-based Partnership, we will ensure that the needs of people will be expressed and met locally in the place where they live.
To ensure confidentiality at all times, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity.
· To comply with the Trust’s policies on diversity, the consumption of alcohol and non-smoking.
· To report all clinical and non-clinical accidents or near misses promptly and, when required, to co-operate with any investigation undertaken.
· To comply
Principal duties to include:
- Provide highly specialist SLT services to adults referred to the community service.
- Provide specialist and multi disciplinary assessment of adults taking into account all necessary factors including premorbid skills and environmental factors.
- Provide differential diagnosis of the communication/swallowing impairment, clearly define strengths and needs, identify SMART goals and offer an appropriate therapy programme, taking into account the level of understanding, motivation, insight, level of support and self-management potential.
- Develop and provide SLT training within the department and to other professionals as well as to families/carers and SLT students (to degree level), SLT assistants and support workers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To demonstrate a well developed knowledge of paediatric therapy, underpinned by current evidence based practice.
· To manage a clinical caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
· To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
· To use knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements / decision making for case management.
· To make appropriate differential diagnoses based on assessment findings.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
- Knowledge/experience in the use of evidence-based assessment and treatment approaches and practices
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
Desirable criteria
- Registered with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Knowledge of risk assessment for this client group
Experience
Essential criteria
- EXPERIENCE WORKING IN A HOSPITAL SETTING
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denica Mukasa
- Job title
- Recruitment Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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