Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 26 July 2026

This is an exciting opportunity to join our brilliant team covering a maternity leave post.

The post holder will be joining the Specialist Medicine team, providing a highly specialist service to patients at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust. The team delivers care across a wide range of specialties including Acute Medicine, Respiratory, Cancer Services, Surgical specialties and front door services. You will join a large and supportive team of therapists, including 2 Clinical Specialist SLTs and assistant SLTs. A FEES and videofluoroscopy service is available, and training to develop competencies in instrumental dysphagia assessment is offered.

The service is based across both NUH campuses: City and QMC, with close links to the multidisciplinary team and opportunities for service development and leadership skill enhancement.

The post holder will work alongside other Band 7 SLTs and the Clinical Specialist SLT, taking on designated responsibilities for team leadership and clinical care.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing highly specialist SLT assessment, management and treatment programmes to people with communication and swallowing difficulties.
• Delivering highly specialist clinical expertise, working with diverse aetiologies and specialisms.
• Managing day to day service operations and providing high quality clinical supervision.
• Leading strategic developments within their specialism in liaison with colleagues and service leads.

This is a full time fixed term post of 9 months, with part time options considered. It offers an opportunity to develop leadership skills in a supportive environment.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city, playing a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We lead in research, education and innovation, and welcome new ideas that help deliver world class healthcare to a vast patient population.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled as we strive to improve representation at NUH.

• Work autonomously to provide a coordinated and highly specialist service within a multi disciplinary context.
• Collaborate with various agencies and professionals to ensure holistic, well coordinated care plans.
• Represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums.
• Participate in multi disciplinary projects as agreed.
• Independently manage, triage and prioritise a complex caseload, providing specialist SLT assessment, formulation, diagnosis, intervention and evidence based advice.

The post requires:

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree
• HCPC and RCSLT registration
• Evidence of appropriate CPD post qualifying

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification.
• Additional postgraduate training up to master's degree equivalent.
• Health and Care Professions Council License to Practice.
• Registered member of RCSLT.
• Post graduate experience in a specialist area.

• Significant post graduate experience within this specialist client group, working with dysphagia and communication difficulties autonomously.
• Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit and benchmarking.
• Experience of service development and planning.
• Experience of supporting and supervising less experienced staff.
• Experience working in an acute setting.
• Experience working in a multi disciplinary and multi agency environment.
• Advanced post graduate training in dysphagia.
• FEES/VF competency.
• Community experience.

• Excellent interpersonal, observation, listening and empathy skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers.
• Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
• Well established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Demonstrated NUH Trust values.

• Provide highly specialist assessment and intervention using evidence based practice.
• Assess complex information, formulate diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning and a range of therapeutic options.
• Make decisions on clinical and strategic issues with available options.
• Assess and manage risk, including identifying clinical risks and conducting MDT risk assessments as appropriate.
• Contribute to analysis of data such as caseload statistics, outcomes and referral patterns.

• Plan, manage and prioritise own specialist caseload and that of others.
• Effectively delegate and manage time within a high turnover caseload.
• Plan, organise and deliver service training and clinical education for students.
• Ensure appropriate supervision arrangements for staff within remit.

• Capable of undertaking SLT interventions in a busy ward based environment.
• Proficient with computer use and data input.

• Ability to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust.

This post requires a Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 Disclosure and Barring Service check for any previous criminal convictions.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts