# BANK - Specialist Speech & Language Therapist ( Band 7)

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £27.08 to £39.13 an hour
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking experienced and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapists with skills and experience in a range of specialisms to join the Guys and St Thomas' staff bank.

The Adult Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service at Guy's and St Thomas' Trust includes Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, Royal Brompton Hospital, Harefield Hospital and community services in South East London.

**Job Responsibilities:**

- Provide specialist Speech & Language Therapy input to patients with communication and swallowing disorders on a bank basis

**Requirements:**

- Degree leading to license to practice as an SLT

- Post-graduate specialist training relevant to role

- Relevant specialist training

- Significant specialist experience working with adults with relevant disorders of communication and swallowing

- Support and supervision of junior SLT staff

- Informal/formal training of other professionals

**Desirable Skills:**

- Competence in videofluoroscopy and FEES

- Specialist skills in management of complex dysphagia, altered airways and intensive care, head and neck cancer including laryngectomy and surgical voice restoration, acute medicine, older adults, adults with learning disability, stroke and neuro rehabilitation

**Salary:** £27.08 to £39.13 an hour bank rate according to banding

**Contract:** Bank

**Working Pattern:** Full-time, Part-time

## Skills

### Required
- Speech & Language Therapy
- communication disorders
- swallowing disorders
- videofluoroscopy
- FEES

### Nice to have
- management of complex dysphagia
- altered airways and intensive care
- head and neck cancer including laryngectomy and surgical voice restoration
- acute medicine
- older adults
- adults with learning disability
- stroke and neuro rehabilitation

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