Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist -Paeds/Neonates

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in a part time 3 days a week 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 videofluoroscopy 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.If you think this sounds like an opportunity for you, please contact our Clinical Lead SLT Virginia Puno virginiapuno@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

To provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants and ward based inpatients who present with feeding/swallowing difficulties.

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.

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.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Queen's Hospital

Romford

RM7 0AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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