Senior Speech and Language Therapist

2 weeks ago


Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals Full time

Job Overview

The post holder will be a highly experienced and senior therapist within the Speech and Language Therapy service, working in the head and neck team. They will provide highly specialist clinical input to this care group and be proactive in the development of services in these areas, with a particular emphasis on the rehabilitation/outpatient part of the patient pathway.

Main Duties of the Job

• To use highly specialist clinical skills to identify, assess and manage a specialist caseload of adults with communication and swallowing disorders resulting from a head and neck cancer diagnosis and treatment across the entire patient pathway.

• To demonstrate highly specialist skills relevant to Head and Neck Cancer, including surgical voice restoration, tracheostomy management, and instrumental swallow assessment (FEES and/or VFS).

• To initiate, undertake and take responsibility for service developments in the Head and Neck clinical area (with a particular emphasis on the rehabilitation/outpatient pathway), and the wider SLT service.

• To provide necessary cover for acute dysphagia inpatients in other clinical areas, during periods of other staff leave.

• Independently take students on placement for clinical teaching and supervision.

• To take a leadership role for registered and unregistered staff working at lower grades and volunteers.

Working for Our Organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.



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