Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Mental Health

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Mental Health

Are you an experienced Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new opportunity? North London NHS Foundation Trust are seeking a talented Speech and Language Therapist to join a welcoming and highly regarded team for a temporary placement.

Main duties of the job

North London NHS Foundation Trust believe that by working together, the Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and their patients than they can by working apart, transforming and creating a positive environment for their service users, staff and visitors. They develop and retain their staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities and promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. They also have excellent internal staff network support groups.

If you're passionate about making a difference in Speech and Language Therapy and working within a dynamic, forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you!

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.

Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and paid annual leave.

Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.

Job responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Provide Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy, as well as SLAs for Dietetics and Podiatry and work in collaboration with established teams.
• Evaluate, modify, and implement interventions using highly developed clinical reasoning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to ensure safe, effective treatment plans that align with best-practice evidence, service users' needs, and family choice.
• Utilise highly specialist knowledge and skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, and management to service users with physical health presentations.
• Take responsibility for all aspects of speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis, and management of service users with Mental Health conditions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You must possess a degree-level professional qualification in Speech and Language Therapy.
• You will have taken part in high-level post-graduate courses in a related area of expertise.
• You will be a Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC.
• You must have demonstrable experience of working within multi-professional therapy teams, including with service users who have mental health presentations.
• You must have extensive post-graduate experience of managing complex caseloads in acute settings.
• You must be able to work across and travel between partnership sites as required.
• You will have undertaken previous experience in managing people with dysphagia.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.