# Advanced Practitioner Speech and Language Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Willerby Hill Trust Headquarters
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working arrangements are available)
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-13T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-04T12:43:53.351Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/East_Yorkshire/Hull/Humber_Teaching_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8257494
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8257494?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.humber.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Forensic Services. The is an exciting new post and will provide a service to the East Riding Youth Justice Team as well as the Learning Disability and Autism pathway within the Community Forensic Service for adults.

The post time is split evenly between the services and is supported by an MDT for FCAMHS as well as an MDT within the Community Forensic Team.

We recognise that people with Speech Language and Communication Needs are dis-proportionally represented in the criminal justice system and early support is essential.

You will join a supportive multi-disciplinary team, working closely with partner agencies to support young people and adults with complex needs. You will deliver a trauma informed service and be confident in risk management, with a strong track record of clinical leadership.

The successful candidate will receive a comprehensive induction programme and will receive specialist clinical and professional supervision.

### Main duties of the job

- To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
- Provides an SLT lead in Forensic Community Team and in East Riding Youth Justice Services, utilising related policies, legislation to support evidence-based practice.
- Supervises/manages staff/students working in own specialist area
- Assess and treats own caseload of patients, individually and/or in groups, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a variety of settings
- To continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, within the multi-disciplinary Hub team and across the geographical area
- To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
- To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced based clinical practice; including involvement in research and audit. Undertake research specialist treatment and provide advanced practice.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent interpersonal skills and supervisory experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to lead and motivate

### Experience

**Essential**

- Evidence of post-registration professional practice
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level

**Desirable**

- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

### Qualifications and Knowledge

**Essential**

- Professional knowledge acquired through degree and Post Graduate specialist qualifications
- Current HCPC professional registration
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

**Desirable**

- Accredited leadership/management qualification
- Advanced/expert clinical qualification

## Documents

- [jd and ps (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10570718)
- [being humber (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2687)
- [staff benefits (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2760)
- [recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 336.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2269)
- [application guide & interview tips (pdf, 600.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3021)

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