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UCLH are looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their Paediatric team .

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.

We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Main duties include but are not limited to:

* To demonstrate highly specialist clinical expertise in the assessment, treatment and management of language, communication and swallowing, problems in children with Cancer including, providing appropriate and evidence-based specialist intervention and evaluation of outcomes and to maintain associated records as an autonomous practitioner

* To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge in this clinical area underpinned by current evidence-based practice and outcome measures

* To demonstrate highly specialist clinical skills for interpretative assessment techniques and interventions in the care of patients with tracheostomies

* To make appropriate differential diagnoses and highly specialist clinical decisions on evidence from assessment of complex cases

* To demonstrate excellent communication skills and counselling skills, the ability to empathise in order to support and counsel clients and carers to accept the implications of their presenting disorder

* To be skilled in working in and liaising within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment. To demonstrate good negotiation skills in working with other team members, carers or other professionals

* The clinician’s highly specialist level of expertise in the field will ensure that they can reassure and instil confidence in clients, carers and other professionals

Essential Requirements

* Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

* HCPC Licence to practice as SLT

* Registered member of RCSLT

* Successful completion of highly specialist post-graduate study relevant to communication (e.g. aphasia, dysarthria, dementia) and swallowing disorders (accredited dysphagia course) at MSc level or equivalent

* Previous experience of working with Children with Cancer

* Great Communication, collaboration, interpersonal skills