Job overview

This is a full time band 5 rotational post within the Adult Speech & Language Therapy Service.  You will provide Speech and Language Therapy services to a caseload of clients with a range of acquired neurological swallowing and communication needs. A significant proportion of these clients will have English as an additional language (EAL). One half of the rotation is based on the HASU and acute stroke unit and the second part of the rotation is split between acute inpatients and outpatients.

Main duties of the job

Within the acute and stroke teams you will have the opportunity to develop skills in cough reflex testing, referring patients for FEES and VFSS and exposure to a wide variety of clinical populations including stroke, care of the elderly, general medical and surgical wards and neurology.  We will support you to progress through your newly qualified practitioner competencies and dysphagia competencies.

Within the outpatient team you will be expected to manage your own caseload with support from a senior therapist ensuring Speech and Language Therapy programmes and care plans are in place for the clients under their care. You will be expected to work collaboratively with patients / clients, parents / carers and with colleagues in Health, the voluntary sector and Social Services in planning and delivery of own service.

You will be able to participate in team meetings, contributing to departmental / team audit and research projects. You will deliver and evaluate clinical training within the hospital setting to other professionals and patients / carers on all aspects of swallowing, speech, language and communication.

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH) is one of the largest integrated NHS Trusts in the country. Our team of more than 8,000 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of approximately one million people providing hospital services to the people of Brent, Harrow and beyond.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

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LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation; we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.  If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.