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Job overview
At North London Foundation Trust, we are committed to improving the physical health of our service users and are passionate about addressing the health inequalities faced by those with mental health needs.
As part of this prioritisation, we are setting up a Physial Health Therapies Team within the acute adult mental health in-patient services. This team will comprise of Allied Health Professionals often underrepresented on acute mental health wards.
We are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist with a special interest in extending and/or developing their work with service users whilst in acute mental health care. You will be equally passionate about addressing inequality and committed to working alongside other AHPs to improve the physical health therapy offer.
We have four acute sites in the Trust, the largest of which is in Highgate, London. The other sites are in Barnet, Haringey and Enfield. Your flexibility to work across these sites and to respond to need is essential.
We are keen to evidence the difference this team can make. Development and quality improvement will be embedded as part of this role. We have close working relationships with our local physical health provision and will ensure these posts do not become isolated but are fully linked in with the North London wide offer.
If this sounds exciting to you, like it does to us, please apply!
Main duties of the job
- The Physical Health Therapies Team will provide Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Podiatry services. The team will work in collaboration with established AHP teams and other physical health colleagues within the care group to deliver physical health interventions for adult service users in acute mental health wards within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
- The postholder will provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership and management of speech and therapy within the Physical Health Therapies Team, and help lead on the design, delivery, and development of high-quality care within this new service in line with advances in evidence-informed practice, digital transformation, etc.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The postholder will act as the deputy team manager for the Physical Health Therapies Team and will assume the team manager's responsibilities in their absence.
- They will autonomously utilise highly specialist knowledge and skills to provide assessment, diagnosis, and management to services users with physical health presentations, thus optimising the clinical pathway, and guide and support others to do the same.
- The post holder will provide clinical assessments and interventions for patients with dysphagia and community difficulties, as indicated by patient need
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Specialist level of clinical skills – able to conduct appropriate assessment, diagnosis and treatment for communication difficulties and dysphagia
- Demonstrate an ability to manage and prioritise own workload across a designated area as required, responding to unpredictable changes to patients and staffing levels
- Demonstrable clinical leadership skills, able to develop, lead, manage and support staff
- Able to apply latest research evidence and evaluative thinking in practice
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-grad experience of managing complex caseloads in acute settings
- Demonstrate a working knowledge and experience of clinical governance with examples of participation in projects for the improvement of patient care and service developments, including leading on projects as required.
- Cervical auscultation training and/or recognised post graduate qualification in dysphagia management e.g. RCSLT dysphagia competencies and/or post graduate dysphagia training
Desirable
- Experience of working within mental health, CAMHS, secure care or learning disability environment
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree-level professional qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
- High level post-graduate courses in related area of expertise
- Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
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This advert is for Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum including HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 12 Jul 2026.
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