Job summary
Join our dedicated team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working within ENT and Critical Care. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated, and passionate SLT to take the next step in their career.
In this role, you will provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy services to adults and children across inpatient, community, and specialist settings. You will assess, diagnose, and manage a range of speech, language, communication, and dysphagia needs, including those related to physical health, mental health, and developmental conditions. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver individual and group therapy, training, and advice, using consultative and coaching approaches to empower patients, families, and carers.
You will play a key role in preventative work, offering guidance to parents, carers, and professionals to support communication and safe eating and drinking. This position requires a high level of clinical expertise to ensure well-coordinated, proactive, and effective care tailored to individual needs.
Apply now and become a vital part of our progressive team at King's Mill Hospital.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence based practice
- Well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments relevant to specialist client group and extensive knowledge of a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions
- Proven application of current theories and practices on rehabilitation
- Highly developed specialist skills related to dysphagia management
- Evidence of strong commitment to team and partnership working, and leadership skills
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency
- Demonstrates flexibility of working and appropriate understanding of roles within a team
- Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Knowledge of current Department of Health policies
- Well-established knowledge of national policies, guidelines and procedures related to client group
- Demonstrates an understanding of Speech and Language Therapy services in the context of the wider NHS structure
- Established organizational skills and experience of caseload management in rehabilitation.
- Proven effective communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
- Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives.
Qualifications
Essential
- 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 specialist area
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates experience of working with this specialist client group.
- Experience of service planning, project management.
- Experience of working in the acute setting
Desirable
- Advanced post-graduate training in dysphagia
- FEES/VF competency
- Tracheostomy competency
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence based practice
- Well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments relevant to specialist client group and extensive knowledge of a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions
- Proven application of current theories and practices on rehabilitation
- Highly developed specialist skills related to dysphagia management
- Evidence of strong commitment to team and partnership working, and leadership skills
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary and multi-agency
- Demonstrates flexibility of working and appropriate understanding of roles within a team
- Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Knowledge of current Department of Health policies
- Well-established knowledge of national policies, guidelines and procedures related to client group
- Demonstrates an understanding of Speech and Language Therapy services in the context of the wider NHS structure
- Established organizational skills and experience of caseload management in rehabilitation.
- Proven effective communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
- Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives.
Qualifications
Essential
- 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 specialist area
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates experience of working with this specialist client group.
- Experience of service planning, project management.
- Experience of working in the acute setting
Desirable
- Advanced post-graduate training in dysphagia
- FEES/VF competency
- Tracheostomy competency
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
