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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 pa pro-rata includes HCAS (inner) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 April 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6881987/200-NN-6881987-AHP-Y |
Summary
Independent management of a complex neurorehabilitation caseload including communication and swallowing disorders.
• To develop and consolidate specialist SLT skills managing this caseload.
• To assess, treat and manage caseload of adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing disorders relevant to specialist SLT skills.
• To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes
• Maintain adequate records of assessment, management and treatment of patients/clients as well as writing and submitting reports summarising proposed care plans in keeping with Professional and Trust standards and reflecting specialist skills
• To manage and prioritise own caseload and workload independently
• To liaise with other colleagues and professional groups to refer patients/clients for further investigation and/or second opinion as required
• To counsel and advise others regarding, the management and care of patients/clients with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
• To make appropriate and effective clinical decisions by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
• To provide observation opportunities for students/other healthcare professionals
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025
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