Rotational Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 14 April 2026

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Please see below for a detailed job description of the role.

UHS offers fantastic training and development giving you the best possible opportunities to achieve the career you want. Development of our staff is central to the delivery of high quality, safe and effective care. We can offer opportunities to develop within a supportive environment.

University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.

Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.

Key Responsibilities:

If you are the successful candidate, you will: Work as part of the Acute SLT team, primarily in one of our band 6 rotational areas. Provide regular communication and swallow assessment and therapy to patients with complex needs. Continually represent the SLT service within the acute service. Be innovative in your approach to patient care and service delivery, whilst being part of MDT service initiatives. Offer training, supervision and support to less experienced SLTs and other staff.

• Experienced in working with patients with communication and swallowing difficulties as a result of a range a range of acute diagnoses
• Experienced in supervising and supporting others
• Experienced in representing SLT in an MDT setting, and effectively advocating for patients needs
• Experienced in working in an acute hospital
• Experienced in planning, delivering and evaluating clinical audits, service evaluations and/or research

We would love to hear from you.

• Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
• HCPC (Health and Care professions Council) registered speech and language therapist
• Evidence of commitment to relevant ongoing CPD and development in relevant areas
• Evidence of relevant speech and language therapy knowledge and expertise with recent experience demonstrating this
• Ability to communicate complex information fluently, confidently and effectively to a diverse range of people: e.g. with patients, carers, managers and other health care professionals
• Ability to demonstrate a practical and sensitive approach and flexibility in working style when applying clinical judgement to complex clinical issues
• Ability to create rapport and professionally manage relationships with colleagues, patients and carers and the emotional challenges this presents
• Demonstrate a holistic approach to treatment
• Evidence of ability to cope with unpredictable events and varying clinical and non clinical work pressures
• Demonstrate ability to independently plan and prioritise own workload in order to meet deadlines
• Evidence of highly developed auditory and perceptive skills
• Experience of audit/project work
• Experience mentoring or supervising speech and language therapy assistants or junior staff
• Experience and involvement with speech and language therapy student training
• Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and relevant specialist groups
• Ability to cover "out of hours" commitments on agreed occasions

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.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust