Job overview
Are you a highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new challenge in a supportive environment? We have opportunities to join our team within our Band 6 rotations.
9-month rotations are on a preference basis and include Acute (Cardio-Respiratory, Care of the Elderly), Critical Care, Head & Neck Cancer and Oncology, Neurosciences, Hyper-Acute & Acute Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation and Early Supported Discharge for Stroke.
We pride ourselves on being a friendly, encouraging and innovative team with a can-do attitude and service development is driven at every level.
Our Band 6s have peer supervision sessions and there is encouragement to do joint sessions with peers across specialities to share specialist skills and knowledge. We offer in house instrumental and trachea training and are proud to provide a robust objective assessment service for our patients with excellent access to VFSS and FEES clinics.
Being a Band 6 at BHRUT allows opportunities to gain exposure to a wide variety of clinical specialities but also develop non-clinical skills in supervision and quality improvement, and opportunities to provide training to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
• As an autonomous practitioner the post-holder will be responsible for the provision of specialist, evidence based SLT assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adult patients across the BHRUT SLT service.
• The post holder will have the opportunity to rotate and develop skills in the following specialities; neurosurgery, neurology, stroke (acute and rehabilitation), oncology, respiratory, elderly medicine, gastroenterology and critical care.
• To participate and develop skills in a busy bi-weekly video-fluoroscopy clinic.
• Deliver education and training to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals including nursing staff, therapists and assistants.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to maximise the rehabilitation potential of patients.
• To fulfil a teaching and supervisory role with peers, junior staff and students on placement.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education / Qualification
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
Experience / Knowledge
Essential criteria
2. A wide range of post registration Speech and Language Therapy experience including significant delivery of services for inpatients.
3. Experience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT.
Desirable criteria
4. Previous experience working at Band 6 level
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
5. Leadership qualities
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.