Job summary
The post holder will be joining the award winning Camden Learning Disabilities Service as part of an integrated community team. This post is covering 8 months of maternity leave and would be supervised by a senior SLT.

The post holder will work autonomously holding a complex caseload of both Dysphagia and Communication. They will be carrying out assessment and intervention/management plans as well as contributing to risk assessments and clinical pathway meetings.

Main duties of the job

• Dysphagia caseload; assessment, diagnosis, management plan and reviews
• Communication caseload: assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning
• Training; dysphagia training, person focused training relating to dysphagia or communication
• Clinical Pathways - to represent SLT on delegated clinical pathways such as dementia or complex health and offer advice and support to MDT colleagues
• Supervision of Band 3 SLT assistant

About us
The Whittington Hospital has a reputation as one of the safest hospitals in England. As an integrated care organisation, providing both hospital and community services, we offer a range of development opportunities along with attractive benefits to staff at all levels of our organisation. Our aim is to provide outstanding care. Care that is better coordinated, in the right place and designed around individual patient's needs. This means we can bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients' experience. We also have a highly regarded educational role, teaching more than 600 undergraduate medical students, nurses and therapists each year and providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professionals.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the Job Specification and Job Description for more details on the main responsibilities

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• NQT competencies passed including dysphagia

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of working with people who have a learning disabilities
• Working with people who have dysphagia and LD
• evidence of assessment and intervention for both dysphagia and communication

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding health inequalities of people with learning disabilities and SLT role within this
• Clinical assessment tools and interventions
• Clinical pathways - the value and MDT working within this

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.