# Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist **Company**: North London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Enfield **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £55,524 to £62,652 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9455-26-0748?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_eb38641c-67d ## Description At North London Foundation Trust, we are committed to improving the physical health of our service users and are passionate about addressing the health inequalities faced by those with mental health needs. We are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist with a special interest in working with service users whilst in acute mental health care. You will be equally passionate about addressing inequality and committed to working alongside other AHPs to improve the physical health therapy offer. The post holder will have an exciting opportunity to influence and shape future SLT provision across the care group. **Main duties of the job** - The Physical Health Therapies Team will provide Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Podiatry services. The team will work in collaboration with established AHP teams and other physical health colleagues within the care group to deliver physical health interventions for adult service users in acute mental health wards within the North London NHS Foundation Trust. - The postholder will provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership and management of speech and therapy within the Physical Health Therapies Team, and help lead on the design, delivery, and development of high-quality care within this new service in line with advances in evidence-informed practice. **Job responsibilities** - The postholder will act as the deputy team manager for the Physical Health Therapies Team and will assume the team manager's responsibilities in their absence. - They will autonomously utilise highly specialist knowledge and skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, and management to services users with physical health presentations, thus optimising the clinical pathway, and guide and support others to do the same. - The post holder will provide clinical assessments and interventions for patients with dysphagia and community difficulties, as indicated by patient need. **Benefits** - NHS Discounts - Generous annual leave - NHS pension scheme - Excellent internal staff network - Flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives **Person Specification** - Degree-level professional qualification in Speech and Language Therapy - High level post-graduate courses in related area of expertise - Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC - Specialist level of clinical skills - able to conduct appropriate assessment, diagnosis and treatment for communication difficulties and dysphagia - Demonstrable clinical leadership skills, able to develop, lead, manage and support staff - Extensive post-grad experience of managing complex caseloads in acute settings ## Skills ### Required - Speech and Language Therapy - Physiotherapy - Dietetics - Podiatry - Clinical Leadership ### Nice to have - Experience of working within mental health, CAMHS, secure care or learning disability environment --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9455-26-0748?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)