Job Title: Locum Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist 
Banding: 7 
Location: London 
Start: ASAP 
Duration: Until 28 March 2025 
Rate:  £29 £34 
Working hours: Monday – Friday, 08:30 – 16:30 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Locum Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our team in London. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide essential clinical cover for general and cardio thoracic critical care units, as well as input across various acute hospital wards. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in managing a diverse caseload, ensuring the highest standards of care for patients with complex needs.

What will your responsibilities be:

As a Locum Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you will be responsible for providing expert assessment and intervention for patients with dysphagia and communication impairments. You will work autonomously to manage your caseload, delivering specialized care to patients in general and specialist medicine, general surgery, and front door services. Your role will involve working with patients who have tracheostomies and are ventilator dependent, ensuring their communication and swallowing needs are met. Additionally, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans, and contribute to the overall improvement of patient outcomes.

Qualifications and Experiences: 

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Extensive experience in the adult acute setting
• Highly specialist skills in the management of dysphagia and communication impairments
• Experience with patients who have tracheostomies and are ventilator dependent
• Experience/skills in Fiberoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) is desirable
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Commitment to continuous professional development

Why work with Pulse? 

From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out. 

Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many clients, you’ll have access to exclusive opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else. 

We always prioritize your best interests, engaging in meaningful conversations and truly listening to you. You are an individual, a professional—not just a resource. 

Reasonable Adjustments: 

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement. 

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.