Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Neurosciences

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Neurosciences) at Band 6 to deliver high-quality SLT care to adults in a neuro-rehabilitation setting. The role spans the Charing Cross Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit and stroke wards, with opportunities for teaching, supervision, and service development.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, focusing on dysphagia and communication disorders arising from neurological conditions, and participate in

Qualifications

• Experience of working with adults with acquired neurological conditions.
• Experience in delivering training to multidisciplinary colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist SLT service to adult inpatients with dysphagia and communication disorders.
• Receive regular supervision from a Band 7 SLT and develop caseload independently.
• Contribute to teaching, leadership, and service development within SLT and MDT.
• Support Therapy Support Workers and supervise placement students.

Skills

Dysphagia management

Acquired communication disorders

Neuro-rehabilitation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical governance

Education

Degree accredited by RCSLT

HCPC registration

Professional portfolio

RCSLT registration

Tools

Videofluoroscopy competency

Job description

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Neurosciences

Band 6

Main area Neurology Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 290-MIC-2248

Site Charing Cross Hospital Town London Salary £47,951 - £56,863 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 27/09/2026 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Are you passionate about providing a high quality Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service to adult inpatients with neurological impairments? Are you looking for the chance to develop your career in a prestigious London Trust with access to highly skilled clinicians and multiple learning opportunities?

We are looking for a specialist SLT to join our service in a split post across the Charing Cross Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (CNRU) - a 15 bedded level-2 neuro-rehab unit - and our Stroke Wards, primarily our HASU. The services have dedicated multidisciplinary teams in which SLT has a high profile. CNRU receives patients from across North-West London and from our local stroke units, major trauma centre, and neurology and neurosurgical wards.

As a valued member of the speech & language therapy and multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to holistic inter-disciplinary working, further developing your clinical skills in the management of dysphagia and acquired communication disorders. You will be actively involved in service development and training of others. The post-holder will provide support to Therapy Support Workers as well as supervise students on placement. Staff are encouraged and supported to participate in CPD activities.

The postholder will participate in a pilot of a Saturday service within Stroke, providing approximately 3 Saturdays in a 6 month period, with a day off in lieu during the week.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be part of the multidisciplinary teams working on the Charing Cross Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (CNRU) - a 15 bedded level-2 neuro-rehabilitation service provided to patients from North-West London boroughs - and rapid access to acute rehabilitation service to Stroke or Neurosciences wards.
• The post holder will provide a specialist SLT service to adult inpatients with disorders of communication and/or swallowing arising from acquired neurological conditions, underpinned by current evidence based practice.
• The post holder will receive regular support and supervision from a Band 7 SLT. They will continue to gain wider clinical experience and expertise through clinical support and be able to make independent clinical decisions concerning caseload management.
• The post holder will also develop skills across the other pillars of practice, including facilitating learning, leadership, and service development, both within SLT and across the wider MDT.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert

Person specification

• Degree accredited by Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT
• Current HCPC registration as a speech & language therapist
• Professional portfolio demonstrating relevant experience and achievements
• Registration with RCSLT

Experience

• Experience of working at post-graduate level with adults with acquired communication and swallowing disorders, arising from neurological aetiologies.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of delivering training programmes to multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Experience of participation in clinical governance activities.
• Experience of working in a bedded neuro-rehabilitation unit
• Experience of working in acute stroke
• Experience of supporting therapy support workers (assistants) and/or students on placement

Skills

• Specialist level of clinical skills and knowledge relevant to the management of adults with swallowing and communication disorders requiring acute and subacute neuro-rehabilitation setting; underpinned by current models of best practice.
• Competent Level C dysphagia practitioner (‘RCSLT dysphagia training and competency framework’) ie able to manage a dysphagia caseload independently - or equivalent (eg operating at Proficient Level of SLT EDS Competency Framework 2025)
• Ability to use specialist knowledge to make appropriate independent clinical decisions, with access to a supervisor, reflecting on practice and demonstrating evidence based practice
• Ability to negotiate with client/carer and medical/AHP teams around individual case management, prioritisation and clinical risk management
• Able to work effectively on own initiative and within a team, contributing to team goals and initiatives as required.
• Certification of basic videofluoroscopy competencies (including participating in clinics & writing joint reports)

Right to work

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.