Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist Neonatal Care

Integrated Care System; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an experienced Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist for neonatal care. The role involves providing specialist assessments and interventions for preterm and complex infants, working closely with a multidisciplinary team and supporting services across the Group. Candidates should have advanced training in neonatal dysphagia and experience in critical care settings.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of postgraduate neonatal dysphagia courses for advanced clinical skills.
• HCPC-registered and qualified to work in neonatal practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and intervention for infants on NICU and SCBU.
• Lead clinical decisions and communicate across professional boundaries.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team and supervise neonatal SLTs.

Skills

Neonatal dysphagia expertise

Communication support

Feeding and swallowing development

Family Integrated Care

Education

Postgraduate neonatal dysphagia courses

HCPC registration

Job description

Go back Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist Neonatal Care

The closing date is 22 August 2025

We are looking for a clinical expert Speech & Language Therapist to support our neonatal services at Hull Royal Infirmary. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a Level 3 Tertiary Unit, providing intensive input to preterm and complex neonates. You will work as part of a newly-established MDT on the neonatal unit/s, working closely with other medical, nursing and AHP colleagues. You will provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants.

This role will link closely with community paediatric services provided by colleagues working in Humber Foundation trust (Hull). As part of your role, you will be expected to help support Speech and language therapy Neonatal care across the Group, and to maintain strong links with wider neonatal networks.

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility salary requirement, therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

To work within the Speech & Language Therapy Team to provide an efficient and effective service in line with the guidance of the Head of Speech & Language Therapy, The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT), the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

To lead delivery of a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy service in Neonatal care. This will include the provision of a high quality, effective and efficient service to infants presenting with feeding and communication difficulties related to neurological, neurodevelopmental, respiratory and cardiac difficulties and other co-morbidities, based on advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of the neonatal cohort.

To promote continuing professional development, evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, and audit/research activity. Advise and provide clinical support in the specialism to community SLTs, highly specialist speech and language therapy colleagues and other professionals, as applicable.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

To be a clinical expert in the field of Neonatal Speech and Language Therapy providing high standard and autonomous specialist assessment, differential diagnosis, advice, goal setting, therapeutic intervention and discharge planning for infants on NICU and SCBU

To make highly specialist clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases and to communicate these decisions across professional and organisational boundaries as appropriate

To have acquired expert skills in the areas of:

- High risk infants

- Support of lactation and breastfeeding including knowledge of the Baby Friendly Initiative

- Development of feeding and swallowing

- Early communication and interaction

- Family Integrated Care

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of successful completion of post graduate neonatal dysphagia courses/training leading to advanced clinical skills in neonatal practice
• HCPC-registered

Experience

• Significant experience of working in paediatric and neonatal critical care settings
• Extensive experience of working as part of a Neonatal MDT
• Experience of management and supervision of neonatal SLTS

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.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust