Specialist Adult Speech & Language Therapist: Sutton Health & Care

Job overview

Adult Speech & Language therapist; Community, Sutton Health & Care, South West London.  (Band 6) - 2 positions available.

The Speech & language therapy (SLT) team work across the Community Neuro & Adult SLT service.  Giving staff the opportunity to work as part of a Community MDT who truly support each other & work together towards our vision of 'Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well'.

To achieve this we work holistically, towards patient led goals, providing rehabilitation & intervention to maximise our patient's potential.  This requires us to be  patient centred & specialists within our field. Using evidence-based practice & investing in our staff, so they have the knowledge, skills & training to provide this.  We provide intervention based on clinical need, utilising each other’s expertise & our rehabilitation assistants to maximise our intervention.

The team works with adult patients with acquired communication & swallowing difficulties, so being trained in dysphagia assessment & management is a vital aspect of this role, as  is experience in rehabilitation.  Visits take place in patients’ homes, care homes & clinics, so staff need to be able to travel around the borough  & work autonomously. Many of the team work part time/ flexibly; there is some degree of remote working.  As a team we also feel it is important that we come together regularly for clinical support/supervision, development, communication etc.

Main duties of the job

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.

The service has various pathways which enable us to deliver intervention to meet our patients’ needs.   Community Neuro provides intervention to Stroke survivors (including an Stroke Supported Discharge response) and other  complex Neuro conditions, such as PD, MS and MND.

The needs of our patients vary widely & our services offer rehabilitation, enablement & disability management interventions dependant on the patients’ needs & goals.

We offer specialised multi-disciplinary therapy assessment & intervention to patients in order to promote quality of life & independence, by preventing inappropriate hospital stays, maximising rehabilitation, recovery, and self-management

Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy (ACSLT) provides adults with acquired communication, speech, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties, assessment & intervention to educate, train, rehab, enable &/or manage their condition alongside their carers & other professionals.

Therapists are expected to work flexibility across the pathways.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.