Job overview

Are you passionate about providing a high quality Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) service to adult inpatients? 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 Adult Service in a rotational role based at Charing Cross Hospital.  This post rotates between the three clinical areas of Adult Acute including admissions, general medical/surgical, elderly care, respiratory, critical care; our Hyper-acute and Acute Stroke units, and our 16-bedded level 2 Charing Cross Neuro-rehabilitation unit.

As a valued member of the speech & language therapy and multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to multidisciplinary working, further developing your clinical skills and actively participating in service development and training others. Staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in CPD activities and audit and research. In addition, the post-holder will provide support/supervision for rehabilitation assistants as well as students on placement.

We hold weekly videofluoroscopy clinics and provide a FEES service. You will be supported in the development of your skills in these areas in line with your learning needs, along with specialist skills in assessment and therapy for acquired communication disorders.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist SLT service to adult inpatients with disorders of communication and/or swallowing as part of the Adult SLT team at Charing Cross (CXH). This post rotates between three clinical areas – Adult Acute, Stroke, and Neuro-rehabilitation. Within these three clinical areas, service is provided to patients across the specialisms of: acute admissions, medicine for the elderly, respiratory medicine, neurosciences, oncology, and critical care / Hyper-acute and Acute stroke units / Charing Cross neuro-rehabilitation unit (Level 2, 16-bedded).
• The post-holder will receive regular support and supervision from a Band 7 within the relevant team.  They will continue to gain wider clinical experience and expertise through clinical support and will be able to make independent clinical decisions concerning caseload management, as well as participating in service, team and MDT developments. We hold weekly videofluoroscopy clinics and provide a FEES service, therefore support will be provided for the development of the post-holder’s skills in line with their learning needs and service priorities. The department supports student placements, and delivers both rolling programmes and bespoke training and education to a range of professionals, which the post-holder will contribute to.

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.  Please talk to  us at interview.