Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 12 October 2025
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in a Band 7 SLT post working within our paediatric and neonates service! We hope to fill this vacancy with a passionate and highly motivated individual.
As an autonomous practitioner you will be responsible for the provision of specialist, evidence based SLT assessment, diagnosis and treatment of paediatric patients across the BHRUT SLT service including NICU. This will include education and training to patients, carers and other MDT members.
You will work alongside another Band 7 SLT to improve and develop our paediatrics and neonates service. We pride ourselves on being a friendly and innovative team where service development is driven at every level, including the chance to further develop our paediatric video fluoroscopy service.
At BHRUT we can offer a variety of opportunities to develop skills in neonatal intensive care, special care baby unit, and children's wards as well as non-clinical skills like supervision, leadership and teaching to the wider multi-disciplinary team. Applicants can be considered for the option of a development post from a 6 to 7. Part-time, job sharing and flexible working options can be considered.
Main duties of the job
o To provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants and ward based inpatients who present with feeding/swallowing difficulties.o To work alongside other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to on matters relating to your specialist area.
o Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Lead) in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Speech and Language Therapy service provided to patients within your area.
o To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Speech and Language Therapists, Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.
o To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required in both management and clinical areas.
o To contribute to running and developing of the Speech and Language service through audit, development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.
o Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Clinical Lead SLT.
About us
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 special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.
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 transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 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 work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Details
Date posted
03 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£53,751 to £60,651 a year per annum inclusive
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-7357-AV
Job locations
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Queen's Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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