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Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly Speech and Language Therapy Team for one year to cover maternity leave.

The post holder will provide an effective, evidenced-based Speech and Language Therapy Service to their own caseload of acute adult in-patients with acquired swallowing and communication difficulties.  The post-holder will work across all Specialities and work as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Main duties of the job

To demonstrate the ability to manage an autonomous caseload on the acute wards.  This will include the assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and management of acquired adult swallowing and communication disorders.

 To demonstrate development of specialist knowledge in this clinical area, underpinned by current evidence based practice and outcome measures.

To demonstrate the ability to work independently, or as part of a team, in the management of patients with communication and swallowing difficulties.

 To demonstrate highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients.

 To apply knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements / decision making for case management, developing clear care plans based on best practice.

  To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to patients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team / other professions, demonstrating empathy and ensuring that effective communication is achieved.

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