Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is recruiting an experienced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our integrated community and acute team on a full-time basis. You will lead dysphagia management across the general acute and wider community population, working on general wards and in community settings alongside a large supportive SLT service.

As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will handle adults with acquired communication, feeding and swallowing needs, with access to

Qualifications

• Experience in dysphagia assessment and management across acute and community settings.
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary teams and support CPD.
• Strong clinical governance and supervision awareness.

Responsibilities

• Clinical responsibility for adults with acquired communication, feeding and swallowing difficulties.
• Deliver speech and language therapy in community and inpatient settings.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to plan and deliver patient-centred care.

Skills

Dysphagia management

Adult SLT

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Are you passionate about working with adults with dysphagia? Are you organised and looking to work within an acute setting and community multidisciplinary teams?

Due to an internal promotion, we are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our integrated community and acute team full time. This post and includes dysphagia management in general acute and of the wider community population. You will be part of the team delivering communication and dysphagia services on the

general wards and in community settings. You may be a dysphagia competent Band 5 looking for the next step. As a large team we can support this development. We have access to instrumental dysphagia assessment, a supportive admin team, embedded supervision and support structures for both professional development and wellbeing. As part of a large teaching organisation, CPD is very well supported and actively encouraged. The successful candidate will sit within a wider adult service with access to a wealth of experience and support in the areas of critical care, acute inpatients, head and neck cancer and voice, CNRT and community. We also benefit from being part of a large SLT service which includes children’s services allowing opportunities for cross-service development projects. We have very strong AHP leadership within the Trust.

The Post holder will have clinical responsibility for adults with acquired

communication, feeding and swallowing difficulties.

The Post holder will have specialised skills with adults with acquired

communication, feeding and swallowing needs.

The post holder will work in community and inpatient settings and support a range of patients with swallowing needs.

The post holder will be a member of the multidisciplinary community and

inpatient teams.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities

This advert closes on Sunday 22 Nov 2026