Senior Speech and Language Therapist | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established neonatal team to cover a maternity leave anticipated to start in early Nov 2025.

We are looking for a Band 7 Specialist Neonatal Speech and Language Therapist to be based in our neonatal units at Queen Charlottes and Chelsea and St Mary’s Hospital’s, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Part time 0.4 wte (15 hrs per week) fixed term contract, 12 months

The Neonatal multidisciplinary teams aim to provide high quality dedicated specialist multidisciplinary care for infants accessing services both as in and outpatients. Multidisciplinary teaching forms an essential part of service delivery to staff and parents/carers to support the development of feeding and communication skills in infants and children. You would be involved in delivering our Integrated Family Delivered Care (IFDC) Initiative and maintaining our neonatal Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation.
• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, by utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence-based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills and specialist assessment techniques.
• To plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time. To be accountable for the designated area of work.
• To flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments. To decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the teams as a whole.
• As a lead member of the department, ensure teaching programmes and clinical education / supervision meet the needs of more junior staff’s education and development to ensure that a specialist knowledge of intervention is acquired at all levels. To develop and conduct local in-service and MDT training.
• Promote a culture of research awareness, research preparedness and activity in the team.
• To take a lead in the development of the specialist clinical area/team and develop objectives and support prioritisation of projects for the team.

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..

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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Sep 2025