Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Sutton-in-Ashfield is looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their team. The role involves providing specialist therapy services to adults and children, assessing communication needs, and working within a multi-disciplinary environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SLT passionate about patient care and teamwork. The position offers a chance to contribute to the delivery of high-quality healthcare in a supportive and progressive setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing specialist Speech and Language Therapy to diverse populations.
• Ability to assess and manage speech, language, communication, and dysphagia needs.
• Proficient in working within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy services across various settings.
• Assess and manage a range of communication needs.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Specialist Speech and Language Therapy services

Assessment and diagnosis

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Consultative and coaching approaches

Preventative guidance

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy services to adults and children across inpatient, community, and specialist settings.
• Assess, diagnose, and manage a range of speech, language, communication, and dysphagia needs, including those related to physical health, mental health, and developmental conditions.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, delivering individual and group therapy, training, and advice.
• Utilise consultative and coaching approaches to empower patients, families, and carers.
• Play a key role in preventative work by offering guidance to parents, carers, and professionals to support communication and safe eating and drinking.
• Contribute to well-coordinated, proactive, and effective care tailored to individual needs with a high level of clinical expertise.

About the role and environment

Apply now and become a vital part of our progressive team at King’s Mill Hospital. For more detail, refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Organisation context

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 we do and strive to ensure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. 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.

Visa sponsorship

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

• Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Application information

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

Closing date

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025