# Speech and Language Therapist: Paediatric Respiratory & Asthma > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/speech-and-language-therapist-paediatric-respiratory-and-asthma/a15608d3-5521-4844-b26f-5e0940abbe12 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/speech-and-language-therapist-paediatric-respiratory-and-asthma/a15608d3-5521-4844-b26f-5e0940abbe12.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-11T11:51:38.890Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Paediatric_Respiratory/Paediatric_Respiratory-v8065856 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8065856?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a dynamic Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SPL) for this exciting role within the West London Children's Healthcare Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma Service. The service provides multi-disciplinary care for babies, children and young people with complex respiratory conditions. You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering this service, contributing your expert assessment, intervention and advice to the diagnostic process and patient pathway. This will include SLT outpatient clinics e.g. VFSS, and multi-disciplinary clinics for this cohort of patients. The role is based at St Mary's Hospital and will work across WLCH sites. Working with the Clinical Lead for Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma, Clinical Lead Paediatric SLT and the wider Multi Disciplinary Team , you will be responsible for developing the service, promoting a learning culture, supervising and developing staff, enabling delivery of a service that is informed by best evidence and expert knowledge. You will have opportunities to lead on both discipline specific and inter-professional development projects, demonstrating your leadership and innovation. If you have clinical expertise within children’s paediatric respiratory care, have proven leadership experience, are innovative with enthusiasm for development, and an ability to think creatively, this could be your next opportunity. ### Main duties of the job - 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 work both independently and within a team structure, demonstrating leadership to manage own and team caseload.  To efficiently manage a caseload and organise this effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. - To formulate and deliver an individualised and specialist care plan / therapy management programme based on advanced knowledge of evidence based practice, advanced clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of specialist treatment options. As a specialist clinician to provide a second opinion where required. - To provide clarity and communicate complex clinical findings to the patient/carers to gain valid informed consent, prior to any intervention. To work within a legal framework for those patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment. - To communicate with patients in a way that empowers them to make informed choices about the management of their condition and engages them in the planning and delivery of treatment. - To take into account cultural, linguistic, medical, emotional, psychological and physical factors that may prevent this engagement and utilise resources available to facilitate communication ### 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. ## Job Details We are seeking a dynamic Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (SPL) for this exciting role within the West London Children's Healthcare Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma Service. The service provides multi-disciplinary care for babies, children and young people with complex respiratory conditions. You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team delivering this service, contributing your expert assessment, intervention and advice to the diagnostic process and patient pathway. This will include SLT outpatient clinics e.g. VFSS, and multi-disciplinary clinics for this cohort of patients. The role is based at St Mary's Hospital and will work across WLCH sites. Working with the Clinical Lead for Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Asthma, Clinical Lead Paediatric SLT and the wider Multi Disciplinary Team , you will be responsible for developing the service, promoting a learning culture, supervising and developing staff, enabling delivery of a service that is informed by best evidence and expert knowledge. You will have opportunities to lead on both discipline specific and inter-professional development projects, demonstrating your leadership and innovation. If you have clinical expertise within children’s paediatric respiratory care, have proven leadership experience, are innovative with enthusiasm for development, and an ability to think creatively, this could be your next opportunity. ## Job Description 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 work both independently and within a team structure, demonstrating leadership to manage own and team caseload. To efficiently manage a caseload and organise this effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time. To formulate and deliver an individualised and specialist care plan / therapy management programme based on advanced knowledge of evidence based practice, advanced clinical reasoning skills and a wide range of specialist treatment options. As a specialist clinician to provide a second opinion where required. To provide clarity and communicate complex clinical findings to the patient/carers to gain valid informed consent, prior to any intervention. To work within a legal framework for those patients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment. To communicate with patients in a way that empowers them to make informed choices about the management of their condition and engages them in the planning and delivery of treatment. To take into account cultural, linguistic, medical, emotional, psychological and physical factors that may prevent this engagement and utilise resources available to facilitate communication ## 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions - Advanced skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of relevant conditions - Advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills - Advanced knowledge of relevant conditions - Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of the relevant therapy area **Desirable** - Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision - Advanced computer skills for presentation and data analysis - Negotiation and conflict resolution skills ### Education **Essential** - Degree (or equivalent) in Speech & Language Therapy - State registration with the Health Professions Council - Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area - Clinical Educators course or equivalent **Desirable** - Membership of the Professional Organisation - Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality - Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification - Management skills or leadership training ### Experience **Essential** - Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area - Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent - Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter-agency working - Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures - Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices **Desirable** - Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post - Leadership of a therapy team - Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment - Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care - Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 777.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10356659) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10356660) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.