Principal Speech and Language Therapist - Neurorehab

About St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides services from two main hospitals, St George’s Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, and two health centres, St John’s Therapy Centre, and The Nelson Centre. With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with City St George’s University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research.

St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.

The post holder will provide direct clinical and operational leadership for a team of Neurorehab Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) working within St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This team provides services to the Wolfson Neurorehab team at Queen Mary’s Hospital (QMH). The post holder will line‑manage the team members, complete appraisals, provide clinical supervision, oversee clinical caseload management, service development and governance.

The post holder will also provide joint sessions, second opinions and highly specialist treatment and advice for patients across the acute caseload.

• Lead collaborative working with patients, clients, carers, colleagues in Health, the voluntary sector and Social Services in planning and delivery of services; work with consultants/GPs and multidisciplinary management teams to ensure coordinated service delivery.
• Provide expert leadership and governance oversight to the Neurorehab SLT team at QMH.
• Independently manage highly complex clients within the Neurorehab caseload, making differential diagnosis and clinical management decisions based on evidence from assessment and weighing complex clinical indicators.
• Develop and maintain expert clinical competence and deliver expert clinical service to patients in all clinical areas.
• Develop and implement expert level Speech and Language Therapy treatment programmes within the service, providing thorough services and evaluation through clinical outcomes.
• Be responsible for the clinical supervision of the adult Speech and Language team at Wolfson Neurorehab.
• Demonstrate skills in motivating clients and/or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
• Develop clear unidisciplinary/multidisciplinary clinical protocols based on best practice; demonstrate high level of clinical effectiveness using evidence based practice and outcome measures.
• Keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of excellent practice in Videofluoroscopy (VFS).
• Provide specialist clinical technical skills for interpretive assessment techniques such as AAC communication.

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