Job Description

The Islington Learning Disabilities Speech and Language Therapy team is a small, well established team and sits within a wider multidisciplinary team. You will be working closely with the SLT team lead, band 6 and part time SLTA to provide a comprehensive communication and dysphagia service to adults with learning disabilities within the borough. You will be encouraged to take part in service wide projects and training and will carry a varied caseload of clients with varying levels of learning disabilities who have complex dysphagia and communication needs.



The post holder will manage a caseload of complex communication and dysphagia needs for adults with learning disabilities within the borough of Islington. The post holder will have strong supervisory responsibilities and caseload management skills. There will be regular collaboration with multi disciplinary colleagues and multi agency working.



Whittington Health NHS Trust provides a wide range of health and care services. From maternity, through children's mental and physical healthcare, health visitors, community and school nursing and therapists, urgent and emergency, cancer care, dental services, elective care, all the way to end of life care: we support patients, families and local communities in community health centres, GP clinics, dental practices across North Central London and beyond, at our hospital in Archway, and in patients' own homes.



We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an 'integrated care organisation'.



Please see the attached job description and person specification for the main duties and role responsibilities of the post.