Senior Speech and Language Therapist (SLT)

Job overview

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHNT) is looking for a motivated and experienced Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) who exemplifies our Trust values to join the Adult Acute SLT team on our Hammersmith hospital site for a fixed term period. The site team is 3.0wte (Band 8a, Band 7 and Band 6) and the post holder will join our wider SLT service of over 30wte SLTs working across the Trust.

The post-holder will provide a specialist clinical SLT service to adult inpatients with communication and/or swallowing disorders resulting from acquired neurological, medical and surgical conditions of an acute or chronic nature.

Hammersmith Hospital is a specialist hospital offering a range of services including renal, haematology, cancer (including upper GI), critical care and cardiology/cardiothoracic.

The successful candidate will need to be flexible and adaptable as they may be required to provide cross site cover. Significant clinical experience in acute settings is essential, as well as the ability to influence, inspire and build relationships across disciplines.

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Main duties of the job

• The post holder will deliver a high quality, evidence-based responsive service and will be expected to support junior colleagues and work as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary team providing assessment and management plans to adult acute inpatients. They will also be expected to participate in service improvement projects including MDT training programmes.
• The post-holder will be supported by the Adult SLT Clinical Lead for the HH site, and will work closely and collaboratively with other adult SLTs and teams across the organisation which includes Adult Acute at St Mary's Hospital (SMH) and Adult Acute, Stroke & Neuro-rehab, Head & Neck, Voice and Laryngology/Airways teams based at Charing Cross Hospital (CXH).   The SLT service receives academic support from the Clinical Academic SLT. You will work alongside your site-based therapy and wider MDT colleagues, and collaborate with community partners.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.