# Adult SLT Band 5

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Ealing
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £36,943 to £44,900 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking 2.0 WTE Adult SLT Band 5 Rotational Posts, suitable for both current Band 5's and NQPs. The Ealing Community Partners, Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team, require enthusiastic Band 5 Therapists to join our friendly and supportive team.

The rotational posts will be located within the Community SLT service and the Inpatient SLT service at Clayponds Hospital. Clayponds Hospital is a 70 bedded rehabilitation hospital with 3 pathways of care: admission avoidance; elderly rehabilitation & Neuro/Stroke level 3 rehabilitation unit.

**Main Duties of the Job**

- Use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties.

- Provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis, and develop and implement appropriate interventions.

- Write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals.

- Develop clear care plans, advice, and information, based on best practice.

- Ensure patients and/or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans.

- Provide advice and training to other professionals, carers, and relatives.

- Work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals.

**About Us**

- Excellent support and supervision structure, including a Trust, SLT Lead.

- Excellent professional development and ongoing training opportunities.

- Interesting, manageable, caseload and waiting list.

- Access to Talking Mats training.

- Access to a department budget for resources and equipment.

- Opportunity to participate in innovative new work models.

- Fast, effective, IT and technology.

- Excellent MDT working opportunities.

- Good links to the Acute environment and access to timely VF.

- Work from a purpose-built location with free staff parking.

- Opportunity to negotiate your work hours.

**Person Specification**

- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent.

- Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice.

- Good presentation skills, both written and verbal.

- Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to adult acquired communication and swallowing disorders.

- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to communication and dysphagia.

## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Communication Disorders
- Swallowing Disorders
- Dysphagia
- Neurology

### Nice to have
- Caseload management skills
- Leadership responsibilities
- High and low technology communication aids
- In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures

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