Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (XR06)

Job summary

Main duties of the job

To fulfil this role, you will have excellent organisational and team working skills as well as experience of working within multidisciplinary teams. You will have experience of assessment, differential diagnosis and management of complex Swallowing and Communication disorders and developing and/or delivering accompanying training packages.

If successful you will join a flexible, supportive, and innovative Speech and Language Therapy service comprising of over 34 SLTs.

The Department offers comprehensive supervision in conjunction with a well-established in-service training, supervision, support, and access to regular staff meetings.

These posts will involve flexible working, and you will be included in bank holiday working rotas. Experience of VFSS and FEES competencies is desirable but not essential.

Job responsibilities

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe, a regional and national centre for specialist treatment, a renowned biomedical research facility, and the local hospital for the Leeds community.

Every year, LTHT provides healthcare and specialist services for people from the city of Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber and beyond. The Trust plays an important role in the training and education of medical, nursing and dental students and it is a centre of world-class research, pioneering new treatments.

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