# Highly Specialist Community Speech and Language Therapist

**Company**: Barts Health NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This role involves independently managing a specialist caseload of adults with complex swallowing and communication disorders, providing assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management using evidence-based practice.

The post holder will lead on complex case management, support patients and carers, and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimise outcomes. Key responsibilities include contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives, developing rehabilitation pathways, delivering training to staff and students, and supervising junior clinicians.

The role also includes overseeing community caseloads, monitoring service performance, producing activity reports, participating in specialist dysphagia clinics, and ensuring high standards of patient-centred, culturally responsive care.

The post holder will be a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) providing specialist assessment and intervention to a varied and complex caseload of adults with acquired and/or progressive communication and swallowing difficulties living within the borough of Waltham Forest.

The post holder will be based within the SLT team office at Whipps Cross Hospital and will deliver a community-based service across a range of settings, including the patients' own homes, nursing and care homes, and other appropriate community locations. The role will also include the provision of an outpatient service at Whipps Cross Hospital.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the acute inpatient SLT team at Whipps Cross Hospital, as well as wider multi-disciplinary teams across Barts Health NHS Trust, North East London NHS Foundation Trust and other community based services to facilitate a safe and quality service within the community.

The salary for this role is £55,524 to £62,652 per annum.

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## Skills

### Required
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification
- Registered with Health & Care Professions Council - License to Practice
- Experience in assessment and management of complex acquired and progressive communication and swallowing disorders with adult populations
- Autonomous caseload management and prioritisation of clinical and non-clinical workload
- Implementing low and/or high tech augmentative and alternative communication aids with patients
- Working with various multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and relevant community agencies
- Managing complex ethical issues
- Experience working with interpreters and bilingual Health Advocates
- Identification of service gaps/issues and implementation of sustainable Quality Improvement and service development initiatives
- Managing and leading a team including providing supervision, guidance, and completion of probation and/or appraisals
- Developing and providing specialist training to SLTs and other members of the MDT
- Microsoft 365 and ICT software/applications

### Nice to have
- Experience with supporting staff through performance and/or sickness management
- Development and conduct of specialist training to SLTs and other members of the MDT at a regional or national level
- Completion of relevant Leadership training
- Completion of relevant mentoring/coaching training

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