Speech and Language Therapist - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust
Whittington Health NHS Trust
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2 weeks ago

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our small, friendly and innovative SLT team which is part of a well-established integrated multi-agency specialist learning disabilities team (Health and Social Care) based in Islington.

Islington is a culturally diverse borough with many multi-ethic, bilingual and multi-lingual speaking communities.

The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner.

They will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive and specialist service to adults with learning disabilities with a wide range of complex speech, language, communication and eating, drinking, and swallowing programmes.

They will be expected to work in a person centre way, supporting people with a learning disability to take an active role in decision making, planning and implementation of their care.

In addition to working in an established integrated multi-agency learning disabilities team, we have established links and meet regularly with our SLT Colleagues in the local Adult Services (community and acute) and SLT services across North Central London

Please contact Sue Martin, Speech and Language Therapy Lead for further information on

They will have excellent communication skills and will be able to communicate complex and sensitive information. They will have good written skills e.g. report writing, presentations.


They will work directly with adults with learning disabilities and their carers using a range range of specialist assessment tools to evaluate communication and E&D and swallowing difficulties.

They will provide a range of specialist therapeutic interventions to support adults with learning disabilities' communication.

They will provide assessment and management of E&D, Swallowing difficulties

They will have knowledge of AAC software and programmes.

They will deliver specialist training and presentations, to a range of audiences/groups.

They will provide support to less experienced members of the SLT team


Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Please refer to the SLT ALD Job Description for additional details of the role and post holder responsibilities.
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