Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) – Acute Neurosciences Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to work in London on a full-time basis. 

The salary for this permanent Specialist Speech & Language Therapist job is £45,000 per annum (depending on experience).

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
• Auto-Enrolment of 5% pension – Cleveland Clinic contributes 10% through Salary Exchange.
• Life Assurance, Private Medical & Dental Insurance and Eye Care contributions.
• Discounted gym facilities.
• 24/7 Holistic Employee Assistance Programme.

Shift Pattern:  

• 37.5 hours per week
• This is a full-time role with the following shift patterns: 08:00 am-16:00 pm OR 10:00 am – 18:00 pm (shift-based rota system) on a rotational basis, including a Saturday rotation

Duties:

• Work as an autonomous practitioner assessing, treating, and managing patients with complex communication and swallowing needs for patients with multiple aetiologies and comorbidities across the acute neurosciences service
• Caseloads on our neurosurgical ward, ICU an Acute Admissions Unit
• Work alongside consultants who are experts in their field, including neurosurgeons specialising in neuro-oncology, awake craniotomy, and normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Support a small caseload of acute patients from our Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, and Digestive Diseases Surgical Institute, together with occasional support to our rehabilitation unit when required

Requirements of the Specialist Speech & Language Therapist:

• Demonstrate competence in dysphagia management and active progression towards competence in instrumental dysphagia assessment is desired
• Experience of working with acquired language, motor speech disorders and both low tech and high tech AAC is essential
• Advanced clinical reasoning, together with integrated clinical management with the wider MDT
• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
• Experience in speech and language therapy in the following areas: Neurosurgery and Neurorehabilitation. ICU (desirable)
• Post–graduate experience in speech and language therapy within an acute hospital context
• Experiential post graduate learning and development towards specialist skills such as Video fluoroscopy assessment and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow
• Evidence of training/experience supervising therapy assistants/students
• Evidence of continuous professional / academic development relevant to clinical field e.g., specialist short courses and attendance at CEN’s
• Evidence of training / experience in basic research skills (critical appraisal, literature reviews)

Contact:

This Specialist Speech & Language Therapist  job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.