Job overview

Are you a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist looking to gain experience in an adult acute setting and achieve dysphagia competencies? Due to internal promotions, opportunities have arisen to join our team in a full-time Band 5 rotational role, with the possibility of other opportunities becoming available in the future. 
We have five 6-month rotations which are on a preference basis. Rotations include Acute Medical (Cardio-Respiratory, Care of the Elderly), Neurosciences, Acute Stroke 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. 
You will have regular access to supervision and training, including peer supervision and there is encouragement to do joint sessions with any SLT across specialities to share specialist skills and knowledge. We offer in house dysphagia training for NQPs and provide a robust objective assessment service for our patients with excellent access to VFSS and FEES clinics.
As a Band 5 at BHRUT you will experience a wide variety of clinical specialities but also develop non-clinical skills in quality improvement, training provision to the wider multi-disciplinary team and supervision.
Applications from students who are about to graduate soon will be considered. If this sounds like an opportunity for you, please contact Clinical Lead SLT Virginia Puno ([email protected]) with any questions.

Main duties of the job

•    To provide clinical speech and language therapy services to adults within the acute hospital inpatient population who present with swallow and/or communication difficulties. This would include rotating across the following specialities: neurology, stroke, respiratory, gastroenterology, cardiology and elderly care.
•    The post holder will have the opportunity to rotate and develop skills in the following specialities: neurosurgery, neurology, stroke (acute and rehabilitation), respiratory, elderly, medicine and gastroenterology.
•    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.

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.