Speech and Language Therapist Band 6/7

Job Title: Speech and Language Therapist Band 6/7

Trust: North London NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Chase Farm Hospital

Ward: Speech and Language Therapy

Pay Rates: £20.82 per hour

Shift Patterns: 4/5 days a week 08:00 to 16:00 or 09:00-17:00

Main duties of the job

Why might this job interest you?

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.

If you're passionate about making a difference 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 build 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:

1. Independently manage, triage and prioritise your own caseload providing specialist speech and language therapy assessment, formulation, diagnosis, intervention and advice based on evidence-based practice for people with communication and/or dysphagia needs, their families, carers, support staff and professionals.
2. Train and motivate other staff members.
3. Use your clinical skills to generate written reports reflecting specialist knowledge.
4. Provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. Use skills to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management for complex clinical issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You must possess knowledge of Dysphagia training.
• Demonstrable clinical experience with either adult Mental Health client group or learning disability client group.
• You will be a Qualified Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist with a minimum of 2 years experience.
• Desirable: Experience in training other staff members.
• Desirable: Experience in community work.
• You will have an understanding of forensic/locked working environments and associated risks.

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.