Senior Speech and Language Therapist - Rotational

Job overview

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a large and busy teaching hospital across multiple sites, with a unique profile of strong local services and a focused set of specialist services. Based within the Therapies team, the Speech & Language Therapy department has over 40 staff providing inpatient and outpatient services across a wide and diverse range of specialities across our 3 main sites.

We are looking for a skilled and confident clinician to join our acute Speech & Language Therapy team at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH).

This is a rotational role within the Speech and Language Therapy team covering adult inpatients .

This is an excellent opportunity for you to hone your clinical skills with a varied and rapidly changing caseload.

The PRUH Speech and Language Therapy team works closely with the SLTs on all King’s sites and the wider multidisciplinary teams. Led by the Head of Speech & Language Therapy and an Band 8A Clinical Lead, the service offers an established supervision system, including action learning groups, plus a range of opportunities for learning and participation in both self and service development.

Main duties of the job

The acute rotations on the PRUH site will include cover to the following areas –

a) Medicine, b) Stroke, c) Respiratory, Surgery & ITU and d) Neurological Rehabilitation

The post holder will provide Speech and Language Therapy services across a range of wards and specialities, remaining within each clinical speciality for 9 months. This will allow them the opportunity to develop a specialist clinical and management skills within the area of adult acute acquired disorders. Line management will be provided by the relevant senior therapist depending on the rotation.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.