Bank Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job overview

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) are looking for a Bank Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to work 2 ½ days any weekdays

To provide a highly specialist clinical speech and language therapy service, working in close collaboration with speech and language therapy colleagues, parents, carers, education staff and a range of health professionals in order to meet the communication and eating and drinking needs of children with complex special needs and their families.

To provide training and support to carers, speech and language therapists and other professionals in the highly specialist clinical area.

Be an active member of the clinical team, providing a comprehensive Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapy service. •    Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.

Build up and maintain key relationships with referring services (including within the MDTs, primary and secondary care services, voluntary and third sector organisations) to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the role of the Speech & Language Therapist and the Multi-professional team.

Main duties of the job

To maintain, nurture and support working relationship with all staff. Specific responsibilities in relation to Speech & Language Therapy Service, Locality Managers and the Integrated team colleagues of all professions

Internal •    Speech and Language Therapy Team •    Occupational Therapy Team •    Physiotherapy Team •    Paediatricians  •    Dietetics •    O-19 services

External  •    Acute Hospitals  •    Brent SENAS •    Brent inclusion teams - e.g Visual Impairment team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'