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Clinical Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £61,927 - £68,676 pa inclusive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2025 |
| Location: | London, W6 8RF |
| Company: | IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7022980/290-MIC-1586 |
Summary
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated and experienced senior speech & language therapist to join our SLT ENT Laryngology and Airway Reconstruction team based at our Charing Cross Hospital site.
• You will have a specific remit to inpatients and outpatients presenting with swallowing and communication needs arising from benign ENT diagnoses, including those with airway stenosis and tracheostomy.
• As a senior SLT, you will play a key role in providing leadership to the SLT ENT Laryngology and Airway Reconstruction service, with key responsibility for the dysphagia and airway reconstruction pathways. You will work alongside fellow clinical lead specialist SLTs responsible for voice pathways, and together, ensure efficient and effective management of caseloads, supporting colleagues and junior members of the team in patient-centred service provision.
• You will provide SLT-led FEES and video fluoroscopy and have access to emerging instrumental evaluation tools.
• You will contribute to multidisciplinary clinics and share your expert clinical skills to support the SLT and multidisciplinary teams.
• You will contribute to innovation and service developments within the specialism, working closely with the service managers, consultants and specialist nurses to provide and develop the service.
We are nationally and internationally recognised for our clinical and research activity and are part of the Imperial Academic Health Science Centre
• This job description is for clinical lead therapists who lead uni or integrated therapy teams on one or more hospital sites and/or community within Medicine, Surgery & Cancer, Neurosciences, Outpatients, Nutrition & Dietetics, Speech & Language Therapy and/or Children’s therapies.
• This post relates specifically to the Clinical Lead Specialist SLT for ENT Laryngology and Airway Reconstruction based at Charing Cross Hospital (CXH), home to the National Centre for Airway Reconstruction. The post holder acts as a clinical lead specialist providing a service to inpatients and outpatients presenting with impairments of swallowing (primarily) and communication/voice related to benign ENT / laryngological conditions, including people diagnosed with airway stenosis / requiring tracheostomies.
• The SLT ENT, Laryngology and Airway Reconstruction service contributes to the site’s SLT-led instrumental dysphagia assessment service (video fluoroscopy and FEES) to inpatients and outpatients.
• The post-holder is supported by the Clinical Service Lead SLT and fellow Clinical Lead Specialist SLT colleagues within the ENT Laryngology and Airway Reconstruction service. Wider peer support is available from Clinical Lead SLT colleagues from across the Trust (H&N, Acute, Stroke and Neuro-rehab SLT teams).
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Mar 2025