Speech and Language Therapist

Job Title:  Speech and Language Therapist – Band 7
Area:  West London NHS 
Salary: £negotiable
Job Type: Locum
Contract length: Ongoing
Job details:  Speech and Language Therapist required to start asap for 12 weeks.
To independently manage and prioritise a caseload of clients with swallowing and communication disorders and to be able to seek advice as appropriate.
To work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team using a person-centred approach and to actively develop the SLT service within the area of Learning Disability.
To supervise other Speech and Language Therapists within the Learning Disability team as required and deliver training/teaching to carers, support workers, and other health professionals and students both internal and external to the Trust.
To use highly specialist clinical skills to manage and prioritise a complex caseload of adults with learning disabilities who present with communication and/or swallowing difficulties.
To provide highly specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning and to give evidence of sound clinical judgements.
To develop and implement appropriate interventions or rehabilitation, as appropriate in the community settings.
To apply specialist knowledge and skills to implement high and low technology alternative and augmentative communication aids with a range of service users.
To provide appropriate highly specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.
To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals and service users, reflecting highly specialist knowledge.
To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use highly specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management.
To ensure the service users and/or their careers and support workers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans.
To facilitate, wherever possible, the service user’s involvement in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes, taking into account the severity of their learning disability and their communication and/ or swallowing difficulties.
To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers, support workers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to maximise the service users’ skills and reduce clinical risk.
To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies.
To adapt practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances, including due regard for cognitive ability, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and differences
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of communication and dysphagia within learning disability, which may at times include progressive conditions and dementia.
To supervise student placements and promote the area of learning disabilities within the Speech and Language Therapy profession
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Code: U. AHP231. 031010. B13446