# Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

**Company**: Central London Community Health Trust
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: £41,957 to £58,785 a year Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated and supportive team on a fixed term basis until October 2027.

You will work with adults in their own homes and outpatient clinics across West Hertfordshire, supporting people with a range of medical conditions and acquired communication and swallowing disorders, including voice difficulties.

Dysphagia competencies and experience of managing dysphagia are essential to this role.

As this is a community-based role, with travel between patient homes, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

**Main duties of the job**

- Manage adults with acquired communication and swallowing needs across clinics, care homes and patients' homes in West Hertfordshire.

- Book patients from the waiting list, plan follow-up appointments and reviews, attend Speech and Language Therapy team meetings and work closely with the multidisciplinary team and other professionals, including writing clinical reports.

- Independently complete specialist assessments, use your clinical knowledge to make appropriate decisions and differential diagnoses, and develop evidence-based care plans covering treatment, advice, review, discharge and communication with patients, carers and colleagues.

- Adapt care plans as patients' needs and goals change and determine when individual or group therapy is most appropriate.

- Assess the need for communication equipment, including high- and low-tech aids, coordinate trials or purchase where appropriate, support patients and carers to use equipment, and support Band 5 Speech and Language Therapists.

**Benefits**

- Competitive employment package

- Investment in employees' development and well-being

- Inclusive organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague

**Requirements**

- An appropriate qualification to practise as a Speech and Language Therapist

- Health and Care Professions Council licence to practise

- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

- Dysphagia-trained to an advanced level

- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses and/or relevant experience up to Master's degree equivalent

- Experience relevant to an adult caseload

- Management of dysphagia in acute, rehabilitation, community, OP settings

## Skills

### Required
- Dysphagia management
- Communication disorders
- Swallowing disorders
- Speech therapy
- Language therapy
- UK driving licence

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