Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Due to an internal promotion we are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and flexible Band 7 or experienced Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist with an interest in working in Neurology to join our Community Neuro-Rehabilitation team in the London borough of Greenwich.

This post will involve working across 3 caseloads:

• Neuro Rehabilitation Team


• Early supported discharge for Stroke


• Community SLT (non-neuro)


We offer extensive support both from the SLT team and the wider multidisciplinary team. There is a well-developed supervision structure in place.Our service actively encourages ongoing professional development and you will be given the opportunity to attend a wide variety of internal and external training. You will have the opportunity to be involved in appraisal, development and supervision of junior staff and students.

You will have the opportunity to refer, attend and develop/maintain competency in videofluoroscopy and FEES and make use of innovative rehabilitation programmes including ICAP, EMST and sEMG. You will also have the opportunity to take the lead on relevant service development projects., The post holder will provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team which includes Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Neuropsychologists, Specialist Nursing and Rehabilitation Assistants to manage those with neurological and non-neurological conditions including Stroke, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Dementia and COPD.

The team provides a service to the person in the place most suited to their current need (their place of residence, day centre, place of work, clinic). We also offer groups which are held in a clinic setting.You will need to be able to travel around the Borough of Greenwich independently.

You will be required to offer formal and informal support/supervision to junior members of the team (both in SLT and the wider MDT), be actively involved in service development projects and in delivering training.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our
medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind


• We're Fair


• We Listen


• We Care