Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

NHS; Romford; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Romford seeks a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their paediatric and neonates service. You will assess and treat patients with feeding and swallowing difficulties, providing education and leadership within the team. Offering a salary between £53,751 to £60,651 annually, this post includes opportunities for professional development and flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of early feeding development.
• Experience with communication difficulties.
• Willingness to continue postgraduate training.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and treatment to NICU and SCBU infants.
• Lead and coordinate Speech and Language Therapy services.
• Supervise and mentor junior therapists and students.

Skills

Knowledge of Dysphagia

Service development experience

Videofluoroscopy experience

Education

BSc/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy

Leadership training

Job description

Go back Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 12 October 2025

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in a 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 video fluoroscopy 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. Part-time, job sharing and flexible working options can be considered.

Main duties of the job

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

o 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.

o To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Speech and Language Therapists, Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.

o To deputise in the absence of senior colleagues as required in both management and clinical areas.

o To contribute to running and developing of the Speech and Language service through audit, development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.

o Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Clinical Lead SLT.

About us

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. We're no longer in special measures; we've opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and, in recognition of our progress, we've been shortlisted for Trust of the Year at the Health Service Journal Awards.

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 to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

Our patients are benefitting from our 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 and are providing an extra 94,000 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 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.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.

Job 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 Amanda Vickers, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5926. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification

Experience / Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of relevant areas of Dysphagia and early feeding development and/or communication difficulties.
• Experience in Videofluoroscopy
• Evidence of service development experience e.g. project

Education / Qualifications

• BSc/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Leadership training.
• Willingness to continue post graduate training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

£53,751 to £60,651 a yearper annum inclusive