# Specialist Speech & Language Therapist – Adult Community Neuro

**Company**: Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Woolwich, London
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The post holder will provide a community speech and language therapy service to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties in the London borough of Greenwich.

The post will enable the successful post-holder to develop their skills across 3 caseloads:

- Neuro Rehabilitation Team

- Early supported discharge for Stroke

- Community SLT (non-neuro)

The team provides a service to the person in the place most suited to their current need (their place of residence, day centre, place of work, clinic).

Responsibilities include:

- Providing specialist speech and language therapy input to clients with communication and swallowing impairments due to acquired neurological disorders

- Working as a lone and autonomous practitioner in the community

- Managing a specialist caseload, including those with complex needs

- Supervising therapy assistant practitioners and Speech & Language Therapy students

Requirements:

- Professional Speech and Language Therapy Qualification

- Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registration

- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

- Completion of RCSLT NQP competencies or equivalent

- Completion of Level B Dysphagia Competencies

The salary is negotiable, depending on experience.

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## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Dysphagia
- Neuro Rehabilitation
- Communication skills
- Time management

### Nice to have
- Videofluoroscopy
- FEES
- LSVT
- Group therapy
- Remote therapy

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