Highly Specialist Community Speech and Language Therapist

This role involves independently managing a specialist caseload of adults with complex swallowing and communication disorders, providing assessment, diagnosis, treatment and ongoing management using evidence-based practice.

The post holder will lead on complex case management, support patients and carers, and work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to optimise outcomes. Key responsibilities include contributing to service development and quality improvement initiatives, developing rehabilitation pathways, delivering training to staff and students, and supervising junior clinicians.

The role also includes overseeing community caseloads, monitoring service performance, producing activity reports, participating in specialist dysphagia clinics, and ensuring high standards of patient-centred, culturally responsive care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) providing specialist assessment and intervention to a varied and complex caseload of adults with acquired and/or progressive communication and swallowing difficulties living within the borough of Waltham Forest.

The post holder will be based within the SLT team office at Whipps Cross Hospital and will deliver a community-based service across a range of settings, including the patients' own homes, nursing and care homes, and other appropriate community locations. The role will also include the provision of an outpatient service at Whipps Cross Hospital.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the acute inpatient SLT team at Whipps Cross Hospital, as well as wider multi-disciplinary teams across Barts Health NHS Trust, North East London NHS Foundation Trust and other community based services to facilitate a safe and quality service within the community.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.