# Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

**Company**: Central London Community Health Trust
**Location**: Willesden
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are pleased to offer a part-time (22.5 hours per week) Band 6 permanent post within the Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) in the London Borough of Brent.

The successful candidate will work with patients across the area of Brent, a vibrant multicultural London Community. The role involves providing specialist domiciliary and outpatient assessment, management and intervention for adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing impairments, with a particular focus on clients residing in community care homes.

The team emphasises a supportive environment, and your clinical development will be a priority, with regular supervision, appraisal, and continuing professional development opportunities.

**Main duties of the job:**

- Prioritise and manage a highly complex mainly neurological caseload independently, making differential diagnosis and clinical management decisions.

- Analyse auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication and identify strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.

- Develop and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Treatment evidence-based practice programmes, providing thorough evaluation of clinical outcomes.

- Evaluate deterioration in client's health status and communicate effectively with professionals in a timely manner.

- Motivate clients and/or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.

- Develop clear multidisciplinary clinical protocols based on best practice.

- Participate and take a lead on SLT Triage for new referrals as required.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive employment package

- Comprehensive training and support for service development, research, audits, and QI projects

- Opportunities for clinical development, supervision, and continuing professional development

**Requirements:**

- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent

- Registration with HCPC

- Dysphagia competent

- Experience in managing neurological and long-term conditions, assessing and treating complex clients with speech, language, communication needs, and dysphagia

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Dysphagia
- Neurological conditions
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills

### Nice to have
- Registration with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of further study
- LSVT training
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff

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