Speech and Language Therapist Voice Lead

Transformation Unit; Gloucester; À distance; GBP 49 000 - 57 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Free car parking

27 days leave + bank holidays

NHS pension

Training and development opportunities

Résumé du poste

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust in Gloucester is seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to lead the Voice Service. You will provide expert assessment, diagnosis and management for adults with voice and swallowing disorders, work with ENT pathways, and deliver joint Voice Clinics.

The role requires leadership and advanced clinical skills, supervision duties, and active involvement in service development and quality improvement within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Postgraduate experience relevant to Speech and Language Therapy.
• HCPC Membership (Health and Care Professions Council).
• FEES training is desirable.

Responsabilités

• Independently manage a highly specialist and complex caseload of swallowing, voice and communication disorders.
• Collaborate with MDT to provide targeted management and rehabilitation.
• Supervise SLT assistants and colleagues.
• Lead and develop the Voice Service with clinics and therapy groups.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement.

Connaissances

Voice Service leadership

Supervision of SLT staff

Experience in voice disorders

FEES trained

Formation

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Postgraduate experience in Speech and Language Therapy

HCPC registration

Description du poste

Employer Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Southgate Moorings Town Gloucester Salary £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 19/11/2026 23:59

Speech and Language Therapist Voice Lead

NHS AfC: Band 7

We love what we do and we think you will, too!

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county .

We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care . We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you ’.

We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and w e are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality team s in all areas of the Trust .

Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.

It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated applications as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the GHC Voice Service for an experienced and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist with leadership experience and advanced clinical skills in voice management.

A Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Adult Physical Health Speech and Language Therapy Team, you will provide expert assessment, diagnosis and management for adults with communication, voice and swallowing disorders, including patients referred through ENT and other specialist pathways. Working closely with ENT Consultants at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will deliver joint Voice Clinics and provide specialist voice and dysphagia intervention as part of a multidisciplinary team.

We are seeking a dynamic clinician to lead and develop our Voice Service, which includes individual appointments, specialist voice clinics and voice therapy groups. You will manage complex cases, provide specialist advice and support to colleagues, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Joining our friendly and supportive team, you will be encouraged to lead innovation and service improvements whilst accessing regular peer supervision, CPD opportunities and team meetings.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician who is passionate about voice services, leadership and delivering outstanding patient outcomes while helping shape the future of specialist voice services across Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

• To independently manage a highly specialist and complex caseload. This will involve screening, in depth assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and review of adults with acute, chronic and complex acquired disorders of swallowing, voice and communication.
• To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to competency levels of other therapists.
• Collaborate with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide targeted management and rehabilitation for patients.
• To supervise SLT assistants, newly qualified and experienced SLTs.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide specialist SLT assessment, diagnosis and intervention to adults and young adults (aged 16-18) with difficulties relating to ENT disorders.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues in the primary, secondary and tertiary services who are involved with care for patients on the caseload ensuring a seamless, high quality service.
• To provide second opinions for other colleagues in specialist area.
• To work as a member of the SLT team for adults with acquired difficulties of communication voice and / or swallowing, providing supervision to other SLTs.
• Responsible and accountable for the management of own highly specialist clinical caseload of patients with complex communication, voice and/or swallowing difficulties. This will necessitate prioritisation of a risk assessed caseload.
• To utilise evidence-based knowledge within specialist clinical area through experience and academic study to a post graduate level.
• To evaluate and make management and discharge decisions with a high level of competence.
• To record and interpret personally generated clinical observations and provide feedback for clients/carers/professionals and relevant others at a highly specialist level
• To provide highly specialist differential diagnosis, second opinions, clinical advice and care plans/therapy to clients with communication, voice and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties. This includes analysis of facts and a comparison of a range of options for appropriate intervention, implementing specialist programmes where appropriate.
• To monitor and evaluate clinical effectiveness using provided support, evidence based practice and outcome measures.
• To undertake, analyse and interpret specialist assessments (Tracheostomy and/or Videofluoroscopy and/or FEES and /or Voice Clinic images based on competencies).

To support compliance with UK immigration requirements, all applicants who require a visa to work in the UK must disclose their visa history in full. This includes current and previous sponsors, dates of sponsorship, visa category, and any changes of employment. If you are on a Graduate or Dependant Visa, please disclose the expiry date on your application. Incomplete information may mean we are unable to consider your application.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Post Grad experience relevant to Speech and Language Therapy
• HCPC Membership

Experience

• Experience of working in a Voice Service
• Experience of running groups
• Experience of working with Voice symptoms
• FEES trained

leadership

• Experience of providing supervision
• Evidence of leading / participating in service development

other

• UK Driving licence

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:

• Free car parking at many of our sites
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
• A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
• Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
• Recognition and long service awards
• Fast Track physiotherapy
• Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

If you are aged 16-30, you may be eligible for financial and pastoral support from the King’s Trust, with who we are in partnership with to support your first 6 months in role. We will pass on your details to the King’s Trust who will be in touch with you if you are eligible. If you would rather not be contacted, please let us know.

For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.

Good luck with your application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.