Job summary
- Main area
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0231
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chase Farm Hopsital (Specialist Services)
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Per annum pro rata inclusive of Inner London HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (Dysphagia Lead)
Band 7
Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The post holder will be responsible for the management and delivery of speech and language therapy services within the forensic pathway in North London Foundation NHS trust. This is a new post to coordinate and lead on the dysphagia service within the forensic pathway at Chase Farm hospital which includes 12 inpatient wards and several community forensic teams.
The successful Speech and Language candidate will be responsible for a Band 6 and Band 5 SLT within their pathway (mental health). They will provide assessment and management of individuals with dysphagia and/ or communication needs and will offer advice, training and consultation to non-speech and language therapy colleagues. They will take the key role in the development of the service in the context of dysphagia by coordinating training for staff and dysphagia screening and work closely with colleagues in the physical health team. The successful applicant will work within a multi-disciplinary team comprising of a range of mental health professionals. There will be regular professional supervision and they will join a team of SLTs within the forensic pathway and access wider support, liaison and CPD via network of SLTs working in forensic services across East, North and West London.
Main duties of the job
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy.
- Health and Care Professions Council registration.
- High level post-graduate courses in related area of expertise
Desirable criteria
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Good IT skills and experience of using computer based communication programmes
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clear evidence to demonstrate specialist experience and clinical skills for working with people with mental health conditions and/or learning disability
- Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional settings
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of work-based learning to demonstrate clinical skills within a range of clinical settings
- Experience of working within mental health, CAMHS, secure care or learning disability environment
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills and ability to communicate sensitive and complex information.
- Demonstrable clinical leadership skills, able to develop, lead, manage and support staff
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- Skills in quality improvement and experience of previous QI projects
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Essential criteria
- Ability to be flexible, engaging and approachable and can work quickly and responsively with both service users and the multidisciplinary team
- Ability to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a history of violence.
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to manage this
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Eve Brotzel
- Job title
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087026107
- Additional information
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