Job overview

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.***

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and passionate Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Neurorehabilitation team, with a keen interest and proven experience of working with adults with neurological conditions. Ideally you will be an existing B6 SLT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working. We also work closely alongside the Community Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team and there will be the opportunity for working across the community with non-neuro caseloads.

You will be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, Neuro Nurses and Specialist MS/PD Nurses. The team provides a service in clients’ own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training. 

Applicants should be able to demonstrate some experience in assessment and management of swallowing and communication disorders in adults with acquired neurological conditions including stroke, head injury and progressive neurological conditions.  This will include completed post-graduate dysphagia competencies, some experience of videofluoroscopy and ideally Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) certification.

Main duties of the job

The team provides therapy along several pathways, which include an early supported discharge service for stroke, supported discharge from hospital service, and long-term disability management for multiple neurological conditions. 

You will be expected to provide specialist speech and language therapy input to clients with communication and swallowing impairments as part of the Bexley Neurorehabilitation Team, working as a lone and autonomous practitioner in the community providing specialist assessments using sound clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to develop effective individualised care plans. 

You will be expected to work with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with long term neurological conditions, as well as supervising therapy assistants and Speech & Language Therapy students, and if required, band 5 Speech & Language Therapists.

In addition, the speech and language therapists may run therapy groups for people with communication impairments and their significant others.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care