Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Neonates/Acute

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare partnership as a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist. This role offers the opportunity to work within a dynamic multidisciplinary team across multiple hospital sites, providing essential support to neonatal services. You will lead the delivery of specialized therapy, ensuring the highest standards of care for infants with feeding and communication difficulties. Embrace the chance to develop professionally while contributing to a vital service that impacts the lives of many families. If you're passionate about making a difference in neonatal care, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech & Language Therapy and HCPC registration required.
• Post-graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and treatment for neonatal patients.
• Coordinate Speech & Language Therapy service in Neonatal care.

Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Motivation

Organizational Skills

Ability to Handle Challenging Situations

Education

Degree in Speech & Language Therapy

Post-graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia

Registered with HCPC

Job description

Job summary

MATERNITY COVER - NEONATES

We are looking for a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist to support our neonatal services across the Humber Health Partnership Group. You will work as part of a newly-established MDT on the neonatal unit/s at Hull Royal Infirmary and will also support the Units at Diana Princess of Wales (Grimsby) and Scunthorpe General hospitals - working closely with other medical, nursing and AHP colleagues. You will provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants and in-reach to ward based inpatients who present with feeding/swallowing or communication difficulties.

This role will link closely with community paediatric services provided by colleagues working in Humber Foundation trust (Hull) and the wider children's therapy service (Northern Lincolnshire), and support and supervision will be enabled, as well as links to wider neonatal networks.

Please make contact if you are potentially interested in this role and require more or less hours - there may be opportunities to explore additional Bank sessions or to cover part of the role.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website.

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 coordinate and lead delivery of a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy service in Neonatal care/acute paediatrics. 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 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.

Date posted: 25 March 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 12 months

Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number: TEMP_500

Job locations: Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Road, Hull, HU3 2JZ

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Speech & Language Therapy (or equivalent)
• Registered with HCPC
• Post-graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia

Desirable

• Qualification in Videofluoroscopy and/or tracheostomy
• Member of RCSLT

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working in paediatric and neonatal critical care settings
• Proven experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience in supporting/including leading Videofluoroscopy clinics
• Supervision of junior staff

Desirable

• Member of appropriate Clinical Excellence Networks (CEN)
• Experience of managing staff
• Tracheostomy experience

Other Requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel between hospital sites and/or in the community as required

Skills, Knowledge and Ability

Essential

• Highly motivated
• Excellent communication skills
• Reliable
• Able to work as part of a team
• Able to deal effectively with challenging situations
• Sound knowledge of relevant areas of Dysphagia and early feeding development and/or communication difficulties.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Hull Royal Infirmary, Anlaby Road, Hull, HU3 2JZ

Employer's website: https://www.hey.nhs.uk/