A Vacancy at Barking Havering and Redbridge Univ Hospitals NHS Trust.
Are you a highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new challenge in a supportive environment? We have 2 opportunities to join our team as a rotational Band 6. Our 8-month rotations are given on a preference basis and include: General Acute (Cardio-Respiratory, General Surgery, Care of the Elderly), Ambulatory Acute (A&E, Ambulatory wards), Critical Care, Head & Neck Cancer + Oncology, Neurosciences, Hyper-Acute Stroke, Acute Stroke, Stroke Inpatient Rehabilitation and Early Supported Discharge for Stroke.
We pride ourselves on being a friendly, encouraging and innovative team with a can-do attitude where service development is driven at every level! Our Band 6's have regular peer supervision sessions and can participate in joint sessions with peers across specialties to share skills and knowledge. We offer inhouse VFSS, FEES and tracheostomy 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 specialties but also to develop non-clinical skills in supervision and quality improvement, alongside opportunities to provide training to the wider multi-disciplinary team.
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, ambulatory and critical care.
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer inspecial measures; we’ve openedtwo new theatresat our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been namedthe top CEOby the Health Service Journal.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need totransform the A&E at Queen’sand get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from ourWomen’s Health Hubin Ilford; anAgeing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) atBarking Community Hospitaland atSt George’s Health and Wellbeing Hubin Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 88,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 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 canwork flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accreditedapprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be aLondon Living Wageemployer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
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 Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 6879. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Mar 2025
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