Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Speech and Language Therapist to join their dynamic team in Doncaster. The role involves assessing and treating children with language difficulties while developing resources and training for schools. Candidates should hold a relevant professional degree and possess strong interpersonal and organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Must have a professional specific degree in Speech Sciences or a Master's in Medical Sciences.
• Must be a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Completion of RCSLT Newly Qualified Practitioner Goals is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of therapeutic care for patients within the specialty.
• Manage own caseload with assessment and independent treatment.
• Collaborate with health and social care colleagues to meet patient needs.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Empathy Skills

Negotiation Skills

Problem Solving Skills

Education

BSC Speech Sciences

Masters in Medical Sciences

Registered with Health Care Professions Council

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Senior Speech and Language Therapist, Doncaster

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Client:

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Doncaster, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job overview

The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit an experienced Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to be part of our mainstream schools team. They would consider the post as a Band 5 to Band 6 development opportunity for the right candidate.

This exciting role provides the successful candidate with an opportunity to develop their assessment and therapeutic skills, working with children aged 5 years and above, who have language difficulties as their primary need.

The successful candidate will deliver a speech and language therapy service for children and young people with language disorder within the Doncaster community. They will provide independent assessment and treatment of children as well as developing and implementing specialist programmes of care and treatment for individual patients with communication difficulties. They will be an integral part of the mainstream schools team, participating in the ongoing development of universal and targeted resources and training for internal and external colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to:

• Be a qualified clinician within their speciality
• Provide clinical expertise in supporting the delivery of high standards of therapeutic care for patients within their care / speciality
• Manage own caseload and to provide a high standard of assessment, management, treatment and advice to meet the needs of patients.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in health, social care, local authority and other agencies to meet the needs of patients.
• Ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available within the team.
• Work with other members of the team in the development of the service.
• Ensure Clinical Governance is integral to service delivery within the specialty area.
• Represent the Therapy Team and contribute to the development of the wider Therapy service within Clinical Therapies.

Working for our organisation

The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Speech and Language Therapy Service is a team of 28 therapists and therapy assistants working across multiple clinical pathways but all delivering the very highest levels of care to our paediatric caseloads.

Team leads are in place to offer operational support along with clinical specialists available to provide clinical support. Clinical supervision is available for all staff.

As a teaching hospital, opportunities are available to participate in research. The department has a track record of successful applications to Health Education England – National Institute for Health Research clinical academic programmes with staff participating in the Internship and Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship schemes.

Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we look for people who are strongly aligned with them.

Person specification

Organisational Skills

• Good organisational skills.

Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
• Negotiation and problems solving skills
• Can demonstrate good analytical and reflection skills.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Adaptable to change

Qualifications/ Training

• Professional specific degree i.e. BSC speech sciences or Masters in medical sciences.
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Completion of the RCSLT Newly Qualified Practitioner Goals
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council

Experience

• Relevant undergraduate experience of working with a paediatric caseload
• Relevant undergraduate experience of working with a range of assessment tools and appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Relevant undergraduate experience of working with children with language difficulties and/or DLD
• Relevant undergraduate experience of using AAC e.g. symbols, communication boards
• Relevant undergraduate experience of working with multidisciplinary teams

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