# Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-acute-medicine/58c5efa7-15d0-4c12-8826-4975044894de - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-acute-medicine/58c5efa7-15d0-4c12-8826-4975044894de.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Stoke Mandeville Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (pro rata for part time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T08:40:32.457Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Voice/Voice-v8379229 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8379229?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Buckinghamshire Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our acute SLT team. You will be joining a friendly SLT team working across Buckinghamshire, delivering high quality care. This post offers the opportunity to work with acute SLT and MDT colleagues, providing swallowing and communication assessments and advice for patients admitted to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The post holder is integral to the SLT provision in our admission areas and will work collaboratively with the REACT team to assess patients and enhance patient flow. The post holder will additionally support the ongoing care or patients throughout their inpatient admission. The post holder will be involved in the provision of instrumental assessment via FEES and VF. We can offer training and development from within our team and this post could be considered as a band 6/band 7 development opportunity for the right person. In this situation the post holder would be supported to complete competencies related to acute care, to progress from a band 6 to a band 7. ### Main duties of the job The postholder will independently manage and take responsibility for their own caseload and will: - Assess patients presenting in the A&E department or front-door service with acute communication and swallowing difficulties and interpret results from diagnostic tests, medical history, and multidisciplinary team (MDT) input to inform treatment plans. - Work effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, prioritizing cases based on acuity and severity of needs. - Identify, assess, and diagnose swallowing and communication impairments and implement management programmes, or therapy, where appropriate. - Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to ensure holistic care and effective management of speech and swallowing needs - Use highly specialist clinical skills to manage an acute caseload of eating, drinking, swallowing and communication difficulties. - Provide expert guidance and information to colleagues, patients and carers. - To provide instrumental assessment, including Videofluoroscopy and FEES, as indicated in patient care. - Support patients with communication impairments to engage with care planning and advanced care planning - Demonstrate leadership and support the development of SLT and HCP colleagues. - Independently take students on placement. - Take responsibility for implementing service wide developments as appropriate and contribute to the operational delivery of acute services at Stoke Mandeville Hospital ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number. ### 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 ### EXPERIENCE **Essential** - Significant clinical experience in Speech and Language Therapy, typically at least 2–3 years at Band 6 or equivalent level - Experience in assessment and management of complex communication and dysphagia in acute settings and in optimising patient flow - Experience in clinical decision making and managing complex caseloads in a fast-paced environment. **Desirable** - Proven ability to supervise and support junior staff, assistants, and students. - Experience of the application of quality measures pertaining to SLT ### SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES **Essential** - e.g. Ability to work internal rotation ### SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE **Essential** - Well established knowledge of specialist SLT assessment and therapy tools relevant to these client groups including VFS and FEES. - Knowledge of the roles of other professionals involved in the relevant areas of patient care - Working knowledge of MS Office applications and use of the Internet for communication and information **Desirable** - Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group - Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and quality measures ### EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING **Essential** - Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent - Health Professions Council Licence to Practice - Completion of accredited post graduate qualification in dysphagia or equivalent, demonstrating completion of competencies **Desirable** - Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists - Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Network - Competencies achieved in Videoflurosocopy assessment and FEES assessment of swallowing ## Documents - [job description (docx, 136.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10707895) - [person specification (pdf, 328.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10707852) - [functional requirements (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10707853) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.