# Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute Stroke Unit > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-acute-stroke-unit/33c48e0c-5c49-45dd-942b-6dd79ab5e54b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-acute-stroke-unit/33c48e0c-5c49-45dd-942b-6dd79ab5e54b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North Middlesex University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £45953.00 to £54254.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T13:00:58.927Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8319791 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8319791?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced Band 5 or developing band 6 looking for your next challenge? We are looking for a Band 6 therapist keen to further develop their clinical and leadership skills within our Acute Stroke Unit. You will ideally have experience of the inpatient setting and will have completed your dysphagia competencies and be able to manage an independent caseload. You will be part of a supportive, friendly, established ASU MDT providing swallowing and communication assessment, management and therapy. You will work alongside and be supported by the Highly Specialist SLT based on ASU. The role also offers the opportunity to develop your competencies in VF with twice weekly Videofluoroscopy clinics. Your patients access to our FEEs service. You will benefit from supportive supervision and we encourage an active learning environment with the SLT team on ASU currently participating in an active clinical trial. ### Main duties of the job ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the Job Description for more information about the role and responsibilities involved. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Others **Essential** - Evidence of responding flexibly to change **Desirable** - Engagement with special interest groups within Speech and Language ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working with adults with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties and managing a clinical caseload independently - Experience of managing demand in a busy, ideally acute setting, demonstrating ability to appropriately prioritise and manage workload efficiently and facilitate patient flow - Experience of working with colleagues in health and other agencies. - Experience of working as a member of a multi- disciplinary team, and ability to identify ways to facilitate effective team working. - Experience and understanding of issues involved with working in a diverse community and of practical ways to ensure SLT practice is culturally appropriate and accessible ### Skills and Aptitudes **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate complex information clearly (verbal and written) and to overcome barriers to communication. - Ability to assimilate and analyse complex clinical information. - Ability to negotiate and deal with conflict. - Knowledge and ability to use a range of specialist assessment tools and procedures to evaluate adult acquired communication and swallowing impairments within an acute stroke setting - Knowledge of the role of instrumental assessment of swallowing within this setting (Videofluoroscopy/FEES) and impact on longer term swallow management. - Knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions relevant to adults with acquired communication and swallowing impairments and ability to demonstrate the evidence base for these approaches. - Ability to organise and prioritise own caseload and that of student and junior staff. - Understanding the role of and process of clinical supervision, both as a supervisee and supervisor. ### Royal Free World Class Values **Essential** - - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Personal qualities and attributes **Essential** - Commitment to lifelong learning - Team player ### Education & Professional Qualifications **Essential** - Degree or MSc in Speech and Language Therapy - Health Professions Council Registration to Practice **Desirable** - Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists ## Documents - [band 6 slt asu jd (pdf, 328.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10641513) - [band 6 slt asu ps (pdf, 168.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10708188) - [functional requirement (pdf, 392.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10641514) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 637.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.