# Head of Speech and Language Therapy

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
- **Location:** Wrexham
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist
- **Salary:** £67583.00 to £78530.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-20T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-14T12:58:11.714Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8231360
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8231360?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://bcuhb.nhs.wales

## Job Content

### Job overview

Provide strategic and operational leadership for Speech & Language Therapy Services, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality service delivery while maintaining professional, clinical and governance standards.

Lead service development, modernisation and change management, implementing policies and driving improvements that align with Health Board priorities, government objectives and the evolving needs of patients and communities.

Manage resources, budgets and workforce performance, including staff leadership, professional development, financial oversight and ensuring services are delivered efficiently within available resources.

Develop and maintain effective partnerships and collaborative working arrangements with internal and external stakeholders, representing the service and supporting integrated working across health, social care, education and voluntary sectors.

### Main duties of the job

Planning and designing services

Improvement and monitoring

Clinical Activity

Finance and budget management

Leadership and training

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Professionally and operationally lead the Speech and Language Therapy Service in North East Wales. Along the whole range of settings and all age groups. Work in partnership with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

### 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.

Welsh language skills are desirable

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- - BSc / Dip Grad in Speech & Language Therapy
- MSc or equivalent level of knowledge
- - Experience of working at management level.
- - Financial, Budget and resource management.
- - Proven organisational skills including prioritisation.

**Desirable**

- - Experience of lecturing and lesson planning.

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Understanding of professional ethics / code of conduct and their application in practice.

## Documents

- [jdps –sdmp (pdf, 784.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541265)
- [welsh language matrix (pdf, 134.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2220)
- [oh form - ig ffurflen (docx, 103.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10541266)
- [betsi cadwaladr relocation (pdf, 6.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2818)
- [values and behaviour framework (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2937)
- [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 322.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2838)
- [nhs north wales - the right choice (pdf, 3.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2075)
- [nwssp recruitment services privacy notice (pdf, 808.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1632)

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