Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Job summary

SLT Assistant Band 3

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant to join the inpatient neurorehabilitation service at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.

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.
• This role may be required to participate in the weekend working roster.

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.