Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Main area: Adult Speech & Language Therapy

Grade Band: 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Requests for Part Time/Job Share will be considered)

Job ref: 270-TF922-ACS

Employer: Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Highfield clinical care centre

Town: Northampton

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 13/04/2025 23:59

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Band 6

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapists to join the Acute team across the 2 Acute Hospitals, and the Community Adult S&LT team.

You will join a team of Speech and Language Therapists who are situated within the Acute S&LT team as well as a larger countywide team of Adult Speech & Language Therapists and Support Practitioners.

These are substantive posts with the opportunity of full time and part time working, across the acute and community pathway within Adult Speech & Language Therapy countywide, thereby offering an opportunity to develop skills across a variety of caseloads/disorders.

All staff are encouraged to attend regular team meetings, countywide staff meetings, and in-house clinical forums. The service promotes a strong culture of clinical supervision. Professional development is encouraged through membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks, in-house and external training courses and is monitored through annual appraisal.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with specialist knowledge of differential diagnosis in adults with speech, language and swallowing difficulties and experience working with patients across various pathways.

The post holder will work within the Adult Speech and Language Therapy team to manage a complex caseload comprising a range of adult clients with various differential diagnoses.

The post holder will supervise SLT Assistant Practitioners and volunteers.

The post holder will provide clinical teaching of SLT students and will participate in the development and delivery of specialist SLT training to others.

Being a car driver is essential. There are two location teams to cover within the county.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised S&LT degree
• Evidence of successful completion of Specialist Short course e.g., Dysphagia
• Membership to CEN/SIG

Experience and Skills

• Evidence of clinical experience as a qualified SLT in relevant field.
• Evidence of specialist knowledge/skills as a result of experience/CPD.
• Able to organise workload and manage time.
• Ability to prioritise workload – clinical and non-clinical.

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered.

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role.

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trust are subject to a probationary period.