Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Stanton Hill; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for our Stroke Team. The role covers the Acute Stroke Unit at King's Mill Hospital and the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward at Mansfield Community Hospital, with weekend rotation as part of a rota.

The post is full-time and based in a forward-thinking team focused on compassionate leadership, staff wellbeing and clinical excellence within the NHS.

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification.
• Health Professions Council – Licence to Practice.
• Registered member of RCSLT.
• Evidence of short courses related to client group.

Responsibilities

• Understand the role in more detail via the attached job description and person specification.
• Provide specialist SLT support to stroke patients on the Acute Stroke Unit and Stroke Rehabilitation Ward.

Skills

Dysphagia management

AAC knowledge

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Education

Speech & Language Therapy Degree

HCPC Licence to Practice

RCSLT registration

Short courses relevant to client group

Tools

Assessment tools

Job description

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 05 November 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will join the Stroke Team working both on the Acute Stroke Unit at King's Mill Hospital and the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward based at Mansfield Community Hospital.

The stroke service covers weekends and therefore the successful applicant will need to work weekends is on a rota basis. This is a full time post.

You will be joining a forward thinking innovative team at an exciting time. The team has a focus on compassionate leadership, staff well-being and valuing every member of the team for their unique contributions.

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

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Registered member of RCSLT
• Evidence of successful completion of short courses related to client group

Experience

• Relevant post-graduate experience in specialist area including experience with working with dysphagia and communication difficulties
• Experience of service planning.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of goal setting.Experience with AAC
• Acute working
• Advanced Dysphagia Training
• Experience of delivering training

Knowledge

• Well established knowledge of assessment tools and treatment for specialist group
• Established knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
• Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Good presentation skills both written and verbal
• Demonstrates effective ability to prioritise a large caseload
• Demonstrates the ability to work well in a team and to see the benefits of teamwork
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
• Understanding of the principles of clinical governance/audit
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives

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