Speech Therapist

• To provide evaluation and treatment to patients of all ages with speech, language, cognitive-communicative, voice and swallowing disorders. He/ She will assume delegated responsibility for delivering clinical governance and service development including settling priorities for this area of service in collaboration with their line manager.

• The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner providing highly specialized Speech and language therapy services on a caseload of clients with complex needs. A significant proportion of these clients will use Arabic as their first language and possibly English as an additional language (EAL).

• He/ She will be expected to manage their own caseload, providing second opinions and specialist advice. He/ She will work alongside multidisciplinary staff to ensure highly specialist therapy programs and care plans are in place for the clients under their care.

• He/ She will be expected o lad collaborative working with patients/ clients, parents/ cares, in planning and delivery of services.

• The post holder will participate in team meetings, routinely leading audit and research projects, they will plan, deliver and evaluate specialist training to other professional and patients / cares on all aspects of swallowing, speech, language and communication.