Overview
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and passionate Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Neurorehabilitation team, with a keen interest and proven experience of working with adults with neurological conditions. Ideally you will be an existing B6 SLT wanting to further develop your specialist skills in neurology and community working. We also work closely alongside the Community Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team and there will be the opportunity for working across the community with non-neuro caseloads.
You will be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team, including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, Neuro Nurses and Specialist MS/PD Nurses. The team provides a service in clients’ own homes, care homes and the local community and provides a great opportunity for joint working, joint goal setting and regular in-service training.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist speech and language therapy input to clients with communication and swallowing impairments as part of the Bexley Neurorehabilitation Team, working as a lone and autonomous practitioner in the community.
* Conduct specialist assessments using sound clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to develop effective individualised care plans.
* Collaborate with specialist nurses and other health and social care practitioners to manage those with long-term neurological conditions.
* Supervise therapy assistants and Speech & Language Therapy students, and, if required, Band 5 Speech & Language Therapists.
* May run therapy groups for people with communication impairments and their significant others.
* Triages referrals into the service to ensure waiting times for assessment are met and allocation to appropriate skilled staff.
* Maintain up-to-date and accurate case notes in line with professional standards and local trust policies.
Qualifications and Experience
* Experience in assessment and management of swallowing and communication disorders in adults with acquired neurological conditions including stroke, head injury and progressive neurological conditions.
* Post-graduate dysphagia competencies and some experience of videofluoroscopy.
* Ideally Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) certification.
About Us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care.
What we expect you to do
* Use clinical reasoning and negotiation skills to develop care plans which address the client’s goals and clinical needs and communicate these goals effectively.
* Provide advice and education to clients, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and identified need.
* Demonstrate clinical effectiveness through evidence-based practice and the use of outcome measures.
* Work in a coordinated, multidisciplinary manner, communicating effectively with other team members and the wider clinical network involved in client care.
* Triage referrals into the service to ensure waiting times for assessment are met and allocated to appropriate skilled staff.
* Maintain up-to-date case notes in accordance with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies.
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Nov 2025
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