SLT Assistant Band 3

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Band 3 Speech and Language Therapy assistant to join the Speech and Language Therapy team as, working across Stroke and Neurorehabilitation. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a district and tertiary service to a complex caseload including brain injury, stroke, and long-term neurological conditions.

The successful post holder will provide clinical support, as directed by the Speech and Language Therapists, to adults with neurological communication and swallow disorders who are inpatients at St Georges Hospital. The post holder will also provide administrative support to the department as required. The post holder will be part of a progressive and supportive Speech and Language Therapy and multidisciplinary team. Great emphasis is placed on supervision and professional development. Excellent communication skills and an interest in working with people with communication disabilities are essential to the role.

For enquiries regarding this post, please contact Louisa Gilpin, Principal SLT for Acute Neurosciences and Stroke at louisa.gilpin@stgeorges.nhs.uk.

Main duties of the job

• To assist the Speech and Language Therapy team in carrying out delegated rehabilitation duties under supervision.
• To treat own designated workload of patients and maintain associated patient records utilising knowledge and skills gained through experience and/or relevant qualifications
• To assist the Speech and Language Therapy team in the administration, clerical and domestic duties of the service.
• To assist in maintaining services and contribute to the development of services.

About us

With nearly9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.Their main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with 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.As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.