Highly Specialist Speech Language Therapist

We are looking for an experienced paediatric Speech Language Therapist with an interest in acute communication needs and dysphagia, including videofluoroscopy.

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic, innovative, diverse and friendly team. We promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, everyone is welcomed. The Acute Speech and Language Therapy service supports patients across the age range, on the wards and in specialist tertiary outpatient clinics. Our aim is to assess and manage the dysphagia and communication needs of the patients we work with. This role requires knowledge and skills in paediatric dysphagia/ feeding, complex communication disorders and alternative and augmentative communication. When in post you will be supported to develop your knowledge and skills using competency frameworks e.g. infant feeding, videofluoroscopy and tracheostomy. You will be required to work with acute inpatients and in tertiary outpatient clinics across both hospital sites.

Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Royal Brompton Hospital Acute Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Services are now integrated. We are one service across two sites, with most services based at Evelina London Children’s Hospital. Both hospitals sit within Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust.

We are currently advertising a number of Band 7 posts in our Acute Paediatric SLT team, both permanent and fixed term. Please complete an application for each individual post that you would like to apply for.

The successful candidate will be part of a highly specialised paediatric service, with the majority of the caseload in dysphagia. We have outlined some main responsibilities below. These are further detailed in the job description and personal specifications.

• Maintain a good standard of clinical work related to paediatric dysphagia and communication.
• Provide assessment and treatment service for infants and children with complex communication, swallowing and feeding issues within the paediatric settings including a range of different children’s wards, paediatric intensive care, high dependence unit, wards, and outpatient clinics.
• Provide comprehensive evaluation of swallowing including participation in videofluoroscopy clinics.
• To actively participate in cross sight peer supervision and line management.
• To be flexible to the needs of the whole Speech and Language Therapy service and demonstrate ability to work in other clinical areas as directed by lead clinicians and/or relevant Trust leadership.
• To support both SLT students and students from across the wider MDT.
  
  

Evelina London Children’s Hospital is part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital provides an extensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions across south London, Kent, Surrey, Sussex and further afield. The Acute Speech and Language Therapy service supports patients across the age range from newborns to adolescents, on the wards and in specialist tertiary outpatient clinics. Our aim is to assess and manage the dysphagia and communication needs of the patients we work with. We are a large, diverse and supportive team, passionate about what we do. We promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, everyone is welcomed.

We Can Offer You

• Varied and interesting work across multiple specialties
• A strategically lead service and a supportive team
• Regular access to supervision, line management and a continuing professional development programme.
• A laptop to ensure access to trust networks throughout your working day.
• Access to health and wellbeing support e.g. sports and social club, Cycle to Work scheme, employee assistance, staff psychology
• Links with other Speech and Language Therapy services within Evelina London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust including: The Royal Brompton Hospital, The South Thames Cleft Service, Hearing Implant Service and Children’s Community Service.
  
  

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Baird Job title: Clinical Specialist Speech Language Therapist Email address: laura.baird@nhs.net Telephone number: 020 7188 3992

Working hours Monday, Wednesday, Friday

You are welcome to call and speak to the other leads on other days.