Speech & Language Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a team of Speech and Language Therapists that manage swallowing and communication difficulties in individuals. It is community-based, providing specialist assessment, rehabilitation and advice service to people living in the London Borough of Bexley, in a location that suits their rehabilitation need, which includes their place of residence, day centres, or clinics. The Neuro Rehab team work closely with the Community Adult SLT team, and the post holder will work across both caseloads depending on your personalised learning needs.,

• To provide a speech and language assessment and therapy service to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties as part of the Bexley Community Speech and Language Therapy Team.
• To work autonomously and manage own caseload of non-complex clients who present with communication and/or dysphagia.
• To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people and their carers with supervision.
• To work with the multi-disciplinary team and other health and social care practitioners.
• To use supported communication techniques within a Total Communication approach
• To provide advice to other professions about working with service users who have communication impairments.
  
  If you have experience working in rehabilitation, or as a Speech and Language therapist in a health setting, hold a full UK driving licence, and have excellent communication and observation skills, then we have the perfect job for you.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible Band 5 Speech and Language therapist to join our community team. You need to be an autonomous practitioner with flexible problem-solving skills, a holistic approach to care and be efficient in your time and people management. The team provides a great opportunity for joint working, goal setting and regular in-service training. The post holder must have the relevant post registration experience & must have completed the dysphagia competencies.

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