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Job summary

Main area
Therapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-6876-AV
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Hospital
Town
Romford
Salary
£42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/03/2025 23:59

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NHS

Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 6

PEOPLE are at the HEART of everything we do

This video gives a flavour of what it is like to work at our Trust and why some of our staff love working here 💙

Job overview

Are you a highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new challenge in a supportive environment? We have 2 opportunities to join our team as a rotational Band 6. Our 8-month rotations are given on a preference basis and include: General Acute (Cardio-Respiratory, General Surgery, Care of the Elderly), Ambulatory Acute (A&E, Ambulatory wards), Critical Care, Head & Neck Cancer + Oncology, Neurosciences, Hyper-Acute Stroke, Acute Stroke, Stroke Inpatient Rehabilitation and Early Supported Discharge for Stroke.
We pride ourselves on being a friendly, encouraging and innovative team with a can-do attitude where service development is driven at every level! Our Band 6's have regular peer supervision sessions and can participate in joint sessions with peers across specialties to share skills and knowledge. We offer inhouse VFSS, FEES and tracheostomy 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 specialties but also to develop non-clinical skills in supervision and quality improvement, alongside 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, ambulatory and critical care.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in ; we’ve opened at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named by the Health Service Journal.

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at in Hornchurch.

These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.

The majority of our 8,000 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.

We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

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.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 6879. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
  • H.C.P.C. Registration
Desirable criteria
  • Post graduate training and development courses

Skills/ Abilities

Essential criteria
  • A wide range of post registration Speech and Language Therapy experience including significant delivery of services for inpatients.
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to demonstrate leadership, supportive and supervisory skills.

Experience/ Knowledge

Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working at Band 6 level

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral CareArmed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

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.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Virginia Puno
Job title
Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01708435000
Additional information

Ext 6766