Speech and Language Therapist

Go back Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 April 2026

Are you a qualified or soon to be qualified Speech and Language Therapist who wants to develop their career in a friendly and dynamic team?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to appoint two Speech and Language Therapists to join our growing inpatient service working into the Working Age Adult and Older People Mental Health wards across the Northumberland and Sunderland areas.

These are permanent, full-time posts. One of the posts will work into wards at St Georges Park Hospital in Morpeth and the second post will work at Hopewood Park Hospital in Sunderland. Both post holders will be expected to provide cover into inpatients settings across the Trust geographical area.

You will work closely with senior speech and language therapists and the wider multi-disciplinary team to support patients through their recovery with individualised, high-quality care.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills within the field of mental health. We welcome applications from speech and language therapists who are already qualified and those who will qualify this academic year.

You will work to support patients to achieve their therapeutic goals by supporting their language and communication skills as well as eating and drinking needs. In practice, you will assess and provide a range of communication interventions with the individual both directly and indirectly with support and guidance from senior clinicians. The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate excellent awareness of communication difficulties.

The inpatient Speech and Language Therapy team is dynamic and passionate about providing person centred care. We would welcome applications from enthusiastic, hardworking individuals who are keen to learn new skills and develop their knowledge within the field of mental health. Previous experience of working with people with mental health conditions is desirable, but not essential.

You will receive support and supervision from speech and language therapy colleagues across the Trust. We actively encourage professional development and provide opportunities for all in the speech and language therapy team to contribute to the development of the service.

The Speech and Language Therapy Service in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is continuing to develop to meet the needs of our patients and local communities. We are looking for dedicated and passionate individuals with different levels of qualifications and clinical knowledge and experience to join our team.

We will provide you with a comprehensive induction period and you will have access to ongoing clinical supervision and appraisal with development reviews that will provide you with support and the specialist skills required to meet the holistic needs of the patients in your care. The post holder will be expected to actively engage in the Trusts supervision and continuing professional development process.

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return, we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

We welcome applications from qualified speech and language therapists and from those who will qualify this academic year.

There will be an element of travelling involved as part of this post.

Please find attached job description for full details.

We welcome your application

• Recognised Speech and Language therapy degree qualification
• Registration with HCPC
• Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Log of supervised hours/completion of dysphagia competencies

• Knowledge of relevant theories relating to communication disorders
• Experience and knowledge of appropriate assessments and evidence based interventions to service users with communication needs
• Ability to develop therapeutic partnership and experience of working to deliver treatment plans with service users and carers
• Good communication skills and ability to deliver a variety of strategies to support adults with complex communication and cognitive needs
• Understanding of the statutory issues which impact on service users
• Knowledge of roles of different members of and the ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
• Some experience working with service users within the area of the post applied for
• Experience of working with service users who have challenging behaviours
• Some experience of delivering training relevant to SALT

• Ability to use IT systems, time management skills and ability to prioritise work load
• Comprehensive continuous assessment of skills
• Risk assessment and management skills
• Able to provide evidence based therapeutic interventions

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust