Job summary
- Main area
- Neuro-Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-MIC-1916
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Speech and Language Therapist - Neuro-Rehabilitation
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Speech & Language Therapist who exemplifies our Trust values to join our highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist service to the Charing Cross Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (CNRU). The unit delivers Level 2 neuro-rehabilitation to 15 inpatients from North-West London boroughs, including 4 'Rapid Access to Acute Rehabilitation' (RAAR) beds. The service is fully multi-disciplinary (MDT) with leadership from our consultant in rehabilitation and has strong links with local stroke services, our major trauma unit and community neurological services.
You will be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, working closely with nursing, physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist , dietetics, psychology and therapy support workers to provide holistic management of the patients’ needs. You will also be part of the wider Speech & Language Therapist department, which runs a weekly Video fluoroscopy service on site as well as an on-request FEES service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder must be an effective communicator with complex neuro-rehabilitation clinical skills and experience of working in multi-disciplinary team . You will be the most senior speech & language therapist on the unit, carrying a caseload and supervising band 6 speech & language therapists and Therapy suppory workers. The role offers the opportunity to further develop a range of skills: clinical, supervisory, educational, and service improvement, and is supported by the Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist for Stroke and Neuro-Rehab, and the Therapy Lead for Neuro-Rehab unit
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Degree (or equivalent) in Speech and Language Therapy
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
- Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working
- Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
- Experience of service development/change management
- Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
Desirable criteria
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
- Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient car
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions
- Advanced skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of relevant conditions
- Advanced clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills
- Skills in supervision, mentoring and coaching
- Advanced knowledge of relevant conditions
- Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of the relevant therapy area
- Knowledge of the influence of psychosocial and cultural factors health/illness behaviours
- Ability to remain updated with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively
- Able to make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations
Desirable criteria
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability to meet Trust values
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Karima Collins
- Job title
- Clinical Lead SLT
- Email address
- [email protected]
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