Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust in Wakefield as a Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. This role offers the chance to enhance your career by working with complex voice and dysphagia cases, with support from an experienced leadership team. Enjoy a flexible work schedule and comprehensive benefits while contributing to the health and well-being of the community.

Benefits

Access to the NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays

Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services

Flexible working options and family-friendly policies

Career progression, training and support

Qualifications

• Significant experience in dysphagia assessment and treatment.
• Experience managing a voice caseload, including complex presentations.
• Ability to develop effective professional relationships.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and treat complex voice presentations.
• Manage complex dysphagia cases from the community.
• Develop services and support governance within the team.

Skills

Autonomy

Clinical supervision

Patient assessment

Education

Degree in a relevant therapy profession

HCPC registration as a speech and language therapist

Working towards a Master's degree

Job description

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Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Wakefield

We have a new opportunity at MYTT for a Clinical Specialist SLT for Voice and Community.

Prospective candidates are welcome to visit or make contact to discuss further. Interviews will be held on 16th July 2025 in person at Pinderfields Hospital.

This is a career enhancing opportunity for an experienced, suitably qualified, skilled and dynamic SLT. The post holder is required to be an autonomous individual who is able to develop effective professional relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and key MDT members.

The role involves working with patients who have communication and swallow needs due to ENT related presentations.

The post holder will have experience managing a voice caseload, including complex voice presentations. The post holder will be ready to work at clinical specialist level for voice, providing triage, assessment, treatment, group opportunities and pathway development on behalf of the service. Experience managing upper airway disorders would also be beneficial.

The post holder will also provide clinical specialist level input for complex dysphagia patients on behalf of the community service, e.g. ENT related dysphagia presentations, complex benign dysphagia, community tracheostomy. Experience of these is advantageous but there can be some element of development in post if required. However, the post holder should have significant dysphagia experience and knowledge overall. It also includes working with patients from the community caseload who present with complex swallow due to a number of conditions including respiratory, oncology, post critical care, neurological, in clinic or at home. Due to fluctuating referral levels, the post holder would also see general community patients as required.

There is an anticipated 2 days role in voice and 1 day role in community. The post is 22 hours per week and this can be delivered over 3 or 4 days.

The main duties of this role include:

• Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of complex voice presentations.
• Assessment, diagnosis and treatment of complex dysphagia presentations from community caseload.
• Service development will be part of the role, also supporting governance and leading with SOPs where indicated.
• The post holder will provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues to enhance our skill mix and development opportunities across the service but will not be line managing staff.
• The post holder will work closely with the clinical leads for voice and community and the wider voice and community networks.
• The post holder will have ongoing support and supervision from the Adult SLT Team Lead and work closely with the Therapy Service Lead. The post holder will have access to peer support from the other band 7 colleagues across the Adult SLT service. Therefore, this this an excellent opportunity for someone who is either new to clinical leadership, or already experienced, to apply. Clinical and Leadership training and development will be encouraged in role.
• The post holder will feed into the SLT leadership structures and engage with wider AHP and Trust wide projects, as required.
• We have a very established and experienced SLT leadership team who specialise in areas across acute, head and neck, voice, community, stroke, training and development and instrumental specialisms.
• Our service offers videofluoroscopy assessment across acute and community and we have an emerging FEES service. Instrumental assessment skills are advantageous but not essential for the role.

Key requirements

For this role it is essential that candidates have a degree in a relevant therapy profession, HCPC registration as a speech and language therapist, and have or be working towards a Masters degree. Please ensure you review the job description and person specification attached for further essential and desirable criteria.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute and community trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application guidance:
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• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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