Oncology Rehabilitation Manchester is a Speech and Language Therapy service for adults experiencing speech, voice and swallowing disorders. We provide assessment, reports, treatment and advice .
Helen Rust leads this service. A graduate in Linguistics and Language Pathology BA ( Hons), at Reading University, she has had 30 years NHS experience in Manchester practising and developing adult speech and language therapy in her specialist field of head and neck cancer. She currently works in independent practice.
Her formative oral surgery years were in the early 1990s within the multidisciplinary Plastic Surgery team at Withington Hospital, Manchester. Large ” commando” resections and reconstruction were performed as the main hope of cure for advanced cancers. These caused unavoidable facial disfigurement and psychological distress. She contributed to the NW region’s first multidisciplinary Allied Health Professional care pathway guidelines for Head & Neck cancer and chaired the Special Interest Group in Head and Neck cancer for Speech Therapists in the north of England 2000-2. She became Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist supporting Maxillofacial, Ear Nose and Throat, Plastic Surgeons in South Manchester.
In 2004 she was part of the expert panel, which published the UK Improving Outcomes Guidance for Head & Neck Cancer. Between 2005 and 2019 as Principal Speech and Language Therapist, Helen led and developed the Speech therapy service at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust. A member of the Clinical Head and neck subgroup for the Manchester Cancer Network, she was supported to lead a Macmillan Innovation project to pilot the delivery of early preventative swallowing intervention during chemoradiotherapy, which has changed local practice.
She has taught healthcare professionals widely in Manchester from Cancer Foundation lectures for nurses to teaching and examining speech and language therapists attending the Advanced Dysphagia HN course at Manchester Metropolitan University and the Upper GI Imaging Masters module at Salford University.
She is currently a Year 1 Clinical Simulation Facilitator and examiner for Years 1 and 2 at the University of Manchester , BSC Hons Speech and Language Therapy degree course.
She undertook Medicolegal Training for Expert Witnesses with Imperial College London in 2020.
What clients say about this service
A high quality, caring Speech and language therapy service, which prepares clients pre-operatively and aids their recovery post-operatively, whilst providing practical support and empathy. Very responsive to questions and concerns. 100% respondents would be very likely to purchase this service again.
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