Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their team. In this role, you will provide specialist therapy for both adults and children, addressing a range of communication and dysphagia needs. The position demands high clinical expertise and offers the chance to work alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team. This is a unique chance for an experienced SLT to enhance their career within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience working with specialist client groups in various settings.
• Post-graduate experience in a specialist area like dysphagia.
• Demonstrated ability in service planning and project management.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized speech and language therapy services.
• Assess, diagnose, and manage communication and dysphagia needs.
• Participate in training and consultation with staff and families.

Skills

Highly specialist knowledge based on evidence-based practice

Dysphagia management skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Problem solving and negotiation skills

Organizational skills

Education

Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification

Postgraduate training up to master's degree equivalent

License to Practice from Health and Care Professions Council

Registered member of RCSLT

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

The closing date is 18 December 2025

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 responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• 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 organisational skills and experience of caseload management in rehabilitation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
• Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives.

Qualifications

• 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
• Masters Degree

Experience

• Demonstrates experience of working with this specialist client group.
• Experience of service planning, project management.
• Experience of working in the acute setting
• Advanced post‑graduate training in dysphagia
• FEES/VF 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.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust