Highly Specialist Speech - London, United Kingdom - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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2 weeks ago

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We have afull-time permanent Band 7 postwithin our adult community SLT team inBarnetand are looking for a skilled, motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist who would like to join us.


Are you looking for an interesting and varied Adult Speech and Language Therapy post working acrosstwoof the following MDT services: the Parkinson's Service, the Early Supported Discharge team and the Inpatient Rehabilitation Wards.


The SLT service as a whole covers a range of teams including: Community Planned Care, Frailty, Post-Covid, Inpatient Rehabilitation Wards, the Parkinson's service, the Home Enteral Tube Feeding Team, a Voice service, and the Early Supported Discharge team. We offer care in clinics, in the patients' homes and in some in-patient settings.


This post will largely be covering a varied dysphagia caseload, however there will also be an opportunity to work with patients with communication impairments.

This post offers the opportunity to develop your supervisory skills, to work with a knowledgeable range of professionals and also to contribute to service development.


For community based roles CLCH has rolled out mobile working allowing full access to clinical systems off-base and supports flexible working.

CLCH offers a range of training and development opportunities as well as excellent supervision and management support.

There is a support network of SLTs locally in Barnet as well as across CLCH, with regular meetings where clinical and professional issues can be discussed.


If you are innovative, talented and adaptable with excellent communication skills and would like to be part of a growing and forward thinking organisation then come and join us.


Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours


We can offer you:


  • A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
  • Single occupancy accommodation in Central London (we can help you find accommodation in London, support you with your deposit)
  • Car lease scheme *T&C's apply
  • Flexible working options
  • Annual travel card loan
  • Training, support and development in your career
As an NHS trust,we are committed to equal opportunities and ensuring equality and diversity in the workplace.


We have a number of staff networks: Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN), Race Equality Network and the Rainbow Network which supports LGBT+ staff. Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

  • Be an active member of the clinical team, providing a comprehensive specialist Speech & Language Therapy service to residents of Barnet.
  • To be independent with managing both communication and dysphagia caseloads.
  • Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/patients and maintaining professional documentation.
  • Build up and maintain key relationships with referring services/ Inpatient Rehabilitation Units/ Learning Disabilities / HEFT Service / Parkinson's / voluntary and third sector organisations and acute stroke services and members of the multidisciplinary team.
Please refer to the attached job description for full list of responsibilities.


As an NHS Trust, we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

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