Team Leader – Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy (SLT)

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Bradford seeks a seasoned Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Team Leader to provide leadership and clinical expertise. In this permanent role, you will blend operational leadership with hands-on therapy and guide a dedicated team. Your focus will include driving innovations in service delivery, safeguarding, and ensuring high-quality patient care. The position offers a wealth of opportunities for professional development and flexibility in working arrangements.

Benefits

Increased mileage rates

Health and wellbeing support packages

Development and learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in speech and language therapy.
• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Ability to innovate and strategize service delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Team.
• Oversee clinical excellence and complex case management.
• Engage with partners for integrated service delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Excellence

Case Management

Communication

Job description

Overview

Lead with Purpose – Join as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Team Leader. Are you a seasoned Speech and Language Therapist ready to step into a strategic leadership role? We’re looking for someone enthusiastic, skilled, and visionary to lead our Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Team and drive forward innovation in service delivery. Permanent position | 37.5 hours per week. This role offers a unique opportunity to blend hands-on therapy work with operational leadership in a high-impact community setting. Your expertise will guide a talented team across communication and dysphagia pathways, and you’ll oversee key areas like Voice Therapy and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

Responsibilities

• Clinical excellence and complex case management
• Safeguarding and ethical best practices
• A supportive team with a passion for patient-centred care
• Strategy and innovation for service development

To provide leadership and operational (inc. line) management to members of the adult community speech and language therapy team within Adult Community Services, Bradford District Care Foundation Trust. To provide clinical expertise to teams including related to practice, safeguarding and provide support and guidance on complex case management. To guide and support staff to make sound clinical decisions supporting the delivery of high-quality services. To work in conjunction with the Leadership Team to implement new service models. To actively engage with key partners and stakeholders to facilitate effective integrated working across the district. To lead on defined pieces of work within the service to address key priority areas with the aim of maximising the impact of service delivery on positive outcomes. To demonstrate the vision and values of the organisation while ensuring the quality and safety of services. To ensure services are delivered within the available resource envelope and that the need for any additional resource is explained and escalated in accordance with Trust procedures.

Values

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increased mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: anna kennedy Job title: portfolio lead for planned care services Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07710917063
Gemma Hoyle Gemma [e-mail]