Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist (Rotational) - Part Time

Are you a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist (Part Time) looking to gain experience in an adult acute setting and achieve dysphagia competencies? Due to internal promotion an opportunity has arisen to join our team within our Band 5 rotations for 4 days a week.

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.

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., The post holder will be responsible for the specialist assessment, management and treatment of patient/clients with communication and/or swallowing impairment as a result of a range of conditions depending on the specifics of the rotation.

To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working with access to direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of formal training, joint working, clinical reasoning sessions and peer review. Access to advice and support from senior Speech and Language Therapists is available as required, clinical work is routinely evaluated.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner. Demonstrating time management and planning skills.

To supervise performance, as directed by senior Speech and Language Therapists, of assistants and students; working with the senior Speech and Language Therapist to ensure the standards of practice of the department are met.

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.