AOS/Medicine Specialist SLT Post

Job summary

Are you looking to make a real difference in the lives of people living with cancer?

We have an exciting opportunity to develop and shape Speech and Language Therapy within the Acute Oncology Service (AOS) at the University Hospital of Wales. The AOS supports patients admitted with complications of cancer, side effects of treatment, or new cancer diagnoses, ensuring timely, expert care that enhances experience, enables early discharge, and avoids unnecessary admissions.

You'll lead the development of SLT within AOS while providing clinical sessions in Acute Medicine, supporting and supervising junior colleagues across Medicine, Specialist, and Surgical wards.

Join a service with a strong ethos of support, regular training, and peer supervision. You'll also benefit from close links with the Acute and Head & Neck SLT teams and wider CPD opportunities.

Our team is welcoming, supportive, and committed to staff wellbeing and professional growth.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) to lead and develop the SLT component of the Acute Oncology Service (AOS) at the University Hospital of Wales. Working with a well-established multidisciplinary team including physicians, oncologists, nurse practitioners, and AHPs, you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist input to support people with cancer.

Based primarily within unscheduled and emergency care, you will deliver front-door services, offering rapid assessment and treatment for patients with cancer. You'll manage your own caseload, planning and evaluating interventions while communicating sensitively with patients, families, and colleagues.

You will also lead SLT provision for the Acute-oncology pathway, coordinating therapy across the acute wards and wider clinical pathway. As this service is in its early stages, you will help shape and refine its development using service improvement methodology and contribute to outcome evaluation to ensure high-quality, patient-centred care.

Collaboration with Velindre Cancer Centre, community teams, and the Prehab2Rehab service will be key to success.

This post is 0.8 WTE, with flexible or part-time options available. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; applications from both Welsh and English speakers are welcome. Our team embraces the Health Board's values of kindness, respect, trust, integrity, and personal responsibility.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well",and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.