Adult Speech & Language Therapist - Band 6

Job overview

Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well‘ is the team vision which we work collectively to achieve.  The Sutton Community Neuro therapy & Adult Speech & Language therapy service is a Multi disciplinary team offering specialist, comprehensive assessment & intervention.  We work with adults in the Sutton area of South West London who have Neurological conditions &/or those with acquired communication, speech, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist Speech and Language therapy assessment, differential diagnosis and treatment for a caseload of adult patients with acquired communication and/or swallowing disorders within community settings.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures in the areas of swallowing and communication disorders.
• To hold and manage a specialist caseload and be legally accountable for all clinical decisions and professional actions, seeking advice from senior colleagues as appropriate
• To identify SMART goals and  offer an appropriate therapy programme, taking into account the level of understanding, motivation,  insight, level of support and self-management potential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To demonstrate a well developed knowledge of paediatric therapy, underpinned by current evidence based practice.

• To manage a clinical caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
• To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
• To use knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements / decision making for case management.
• To make appropriate differential diagnoses based on assessment findings.