Speech & Language Therapy Team Leader, Adult Community Team

NHS; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Band 8a Speech & Language Therapist to lead the Adult Community Team in Sheffield. This role requires a passion for community care for adults with swallowing and communication disorders. Responsibilities include providing clinical services, fostering team collaboration, and ensuring quality patient care at home or in care settings. Candidates should possess a blend of leadership and specialized clinical knowledge, with a strong commitment to ongoing professional development. Competitive benefits and a supportive team environment are offered.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Innovative service improvement initiatives

Qualifications

• Registered member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and leadership training.
• Experience in clinical areas with significant involvement in staff training.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the Adult Community SLT team.
• Manage communication disorders and dysphagia care.
• Oversee efficient operation of the adult community team.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical assessment

Communication disorders knowledge

Team collaboration

IT proficiency

Education

Post-graduate specialist training

Registered member of relevant professional councils

Tools

SystmOne

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Go back Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Speech & Language Therapy Team Leader, Adult Community Team

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Are you looking for your next challenge?

Are you interested in furthering your leadership skills in a community setting?

Are you looking for a supportive and dynamic team, with protected time for your development, to help you to reach your professional aspirations?

Then look no further because we have the role for you.

We are looking for a Band 8a Speech & Language therapist who is passionate about community-based care for adults with swallowing and communication disorders to lead our adult community team in Sheffield.

You will join and lead a highly experienced and supportive team to provide care for service users in their owns homes and care/residential settings. You will have opportunities to work with colleagues in the acute trust and specialists from other disciplines, social care, and the voluntary sector, with regular access to videofluoroscopy and FEES clinics.

We are committed to personal, professional, and service development. We hold regular service improvement and governance meetings, with working parties involving all staff. We have regular supervision and appraisals and encourage self-directed learning. We have regular CPD opportunities and have secured training for the whole team from national and international experts in response to developing clinical needs.

Main duties of the job

To provide leadership and clinical speech and language therapy services within the Adult Community SLT team.

To continue to provide highly specialist skills in the assessment and management of communication disorders and dysphagia.

To ensure the adult community team is operating efficiently and effectively to deliver the best care for patients in their own home or care home setting.

About us

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Working in the community setting is exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. In line with the national agenda to provide care closer to home.

The SLT service across both the acute and community teams in STH has approximately 66 members of staff (51.94 WTE)

The SLT teams are highly motivated to provide a quality service to their patients, they are research active and embrace innovation. The service has established processes for supervision and supports personal and professional development.

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists and Health & Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of highly specialised continuing professional development
• Evidence of successful completion of post-graduate specialist short-course up to Masters degree level or equivalent.
• Evidence of leadership courses / training.
• Evidence of successful completion of management short courses or evidence of management skills obtained through experience

Experience

• Extensive and in-depth experience of relevant clinical area.
• Significant involvement in development and delivery of training packages.
• Experience in supervising more junior staff.
• Highly specialist knowledge of broad range of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for relevant client groups and ability to compare and contrast relative benefits.
• Ability to negotiate and influence as an equal at consultant level across the multidisciplinary team, with key stakeholders in the service area and other agencies.
• Highly specialist knowledge of current diagnostic and management issues across the multi-disciplinary team related to the specialist area
• Significant experience of post-graduate teaching in specialist area.
• Evidence of published research in peer review journals.
• Theoretical and practical competencies to carry out Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluations of Swallowing (FEES)
• Theoretical and practical competencies to carry out VFS, ideally MBSimP certified
• Ability to lead in an inter-professional/inter-agency context/environment to the benefit of client groups.
• Ability to use/ interrogate electronic patient systems such as SystmOne
• Excellent auditory and perceptual skills.
• Competent in use of IT for everyday communication and presentation packages.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Evidence of ability to manage highly specialist and complex caseload independently.
• Enhanced skills in Microsoft office packages including excel for data analysis, sharepoint, one drive etc.

Other Factors

• Extensive portfolio and evidence of CPD with identifiable outcomes.
• Driving Licence valid for the UK with a car or access to an alternative means of transport

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.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust