Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Stroke
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Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/18/2025
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Description
This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to join the Barts Health SLT Service as a Highly Specialist Stroke SLT post with the Award-Winning Stroke Team at Newham University Hospital.
The successful candidate will provide high quality, specialist assessment and intervention to patients with swallowing and communication impairments on our acute stroke unit. You will work with a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary stroke team and external partners.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Asif Patel Job title: Interim Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapy Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02070555758
The successful candidate will provide high quality, specialist assessment and intervention to patients with swallowing and communication impairments on our acute stroke unit. You will work with a friendly and supportive multidisciplinary stroke team and external partners.
- To independently manage a caseload of adults with swallowing and communication disorders on inpatient acute wards at Newham University Hospital
- To use specialist knowledge to independently assess, differentially diagnose and treat patients across the pathways, seeking support of more senior colleagues where required.
- To be actively involved in service development and to contribute to the ongoing development of specialist clinical pathways
- To deliver training/teaching to SLT colleagues, the wider multi-disciplinary team and students across Barts Health NHS Trust
- To participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) through internal training in specialist areas, such as Videofluoroscopy and Tracheostomy, as well as external courses/ Clinical Excellence Networks (as applicable).
- To work closely with all members of the inpatient and community multi-disciplinary team to optimise patient experience
- To supervise band 5 SLTs and band 3/4 assistants (as required)
- To work flexibly in line with the needs of the service
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Asif Patel Job title: Interim Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapy Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02070555758
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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