Bank B6/7 Early Years SALT SW | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 27 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £21.88 - £26.30 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2025 |
| Location: | London, SM4 5DX |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7237796/824-BANK-LIT1395 |
Summary
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
The post holder will provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment service as part of the Merton Neuro Rehab Team on avirtual anddomiciliary basis across Merton. The service includes clients with a wide range of acquired communication and swallowing difficulties, such as stroke and head injury, and those who have a degenerative condition and need support to manage disability and quality of life. The service also provides input for clients who have cognitive-communication and vocational rehabilitation needs
The post holder will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary neurorehab team in addition to the wider speech and language therapy team across CLCH, acting as a resource to other medical, nursing, therapy and social services staff and voluntary agencies and as an interface link for Speech and Language Therapy with acute providers
To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy lead role provided by the neuro team. To take responsibility for the referrals, procedures and operational running of the service along with the leads and service manager
To develop and provide appropriate highly specialist speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
To facilitate group work and peer mentoring for people affected by a neurological condition, alongside the MDT.
To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication
and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative
effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings
To carry out highly specialist physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating, drinking and swallowing
To employ manual dexterity in the manipulation and stimulation of the orofacial
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.
To work as an integral member of the Merton Neuro Rehab service
To produce reports regarding client's needs, reflecting specialist
knowledge, summarising proposed care plans and ensuring that these are
integrated into the client's Individual Care Plan
To provide supervision, advice and support to others regarding the management
and care of clients with communication and/or eating and swallowing difficulties
To generate appropriate and differentiated strategies for case load management,
with regard for best available evidence
To attend and contribute to relevant multidisciplinary meetings and client reviews
as appropriate
To monitor the waiting list in conjunction with the neuro team leads, and to communicate if / when difficulties arise and to decide together on appropriate actions
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Jun 2025