Experience

North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist- Acute and Community Dysphagia and Complex Needs

  • Mar 2015 - Present

  Providing highly specialist Dysphagia assessment and intervention as part of the acute inpatients team at Ealing hospital for Scbu and paediatric wards. Part of community multi-disciplinary team at Ealing for ; neonates and infants with complex swallowing and feeding difficulties. Supporting the outpatients videoflurscopy clinic at Ealing hospital for infants and children referred with swallowing difficulties. Part of the community Multi-disciplinary assessment team for babies and children referred with complex medical needs. Addoc cover for the social communication assessment clinic- as part of the diagnostic team for Autism. Providing assessment and treatment as part of MDT for infants and children age 0-5 as with complex communication needs including those whom require Alternative and augmentative communication. Client group includes babies and children with complex medical and neurological conditions including; cerebral palsy, bulbar palsy, tracheostomy, Down-syndrome, respiratory and cardio difficulties,Cleft, Autism. Highly specialist skills in; paediatric dysphagia, managing neonates and infants in acute inpatients and community settings, paediatric tracheostomy management and managing children requiring support with AAC /PECS Developing specialist skills in videoflurscopy. Named clinical specialist for Dysphagia and complex needs. Early years coordinator for allocated Hub including management of allocation of caseloads across early years and complex needs Providing group and one to one clinical supervision for band 6 therapists including those developing competencies in Dysphagia.



Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Specialist Speech and Language Therapist -Early years Neurodisability and Dysphagia Team

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2015

  Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - providing multi -disciplinary assessment and treatment of neonates, infants and children age 0-11 with complex swallowing and feeding difficulties and communication difficulties. Client group included; neonates, infants and children with a range of medical and neurological conditions including; Cerebral palsy, Tracheostomy, Cleft , Down-syndrome and Autism. Specialist skills in a range of feeding and communication interventions including; Alternative and Augmentative Communication, tracheostomy management and managing feeding in neonates. Training and developing skills of staff and carers working with this client group. Providing clinical supervision to junior therapists



Southwark PCT

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Specialist Speech and language Therapist-Preschool special needs and special schools

  • Dec 2009 - Jun 2011

  Specialist Speech and Language Therapist- Preschool Special Needs Team and Special Schools Team. Providing assessment and treatment as part of a Multi-disciplinary Team for Infants and children with complex communication needs and feeding difficulties at home, in their nursery settings and special schools for children with profound and multiple learning needs and swallowing difficulties. Developing specialist skills in assessment and treatment of children with paediatric dysphagia, AAC, Autism and clients with profound and multiple learning needs. Providing training for parents and carers working with the above client groups.