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Job summary

Main area
Speech & Language Therapy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
162-7525-CCS
Employer
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen's Hospital
Town
Romford
Salary
£44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/01/2026 23:59

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Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Band 6 Speech & Language Therapist - Rotational

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 💙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePIUCfMPLk

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.

If this sounds like an opportunity for you please contact our co-clinical lead ([email protected]), with any questions. Why not also follow us on Twitter @BHRUT_SLT to find out more about who we are and what we have been up to.

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 better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good 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 transform the A&E at Queen’s 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 North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a 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.  

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 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.

Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in this film.  

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 Sarah Wood, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 4188. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details 

Person specification

Education / Qualification

Essential criteria
  • Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Experience / Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • A wide range of post registration Speech and Language Therapy experience including significant delivery of services for inpatients.
  • Experience of working in an acute, hospital-based setting, including working within an MDT.
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working at Band 6 level

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Leadership qualities

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

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

Ext: 6766

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