# Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Critical Care > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-critical-care/2825d897-757e-4c51-b3c8-63f6959168b3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist-critical-care/2825d897-757e-4c51-b3c8-63f6959168b3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust - **Location:** Royal Shrewsbury Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/ pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-14T11:10:40.797Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Shropshire/Shrewsbury/The_Shrewsbury_Telford_Hospital_NHS_Trust/Highly_Specialist_Speech_Language_Therapist/Highly_Specialist_Speech_Language_Therapist-v8068413 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8068413?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.sath.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Speech & Language Therapist to join the critical care service across both Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospital sites. As part of the Trust’s Hospital Transformation Programme, the Critical Care Unit eventually will be solely situated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a new state of the art building, alongside all emergency and acute services. This post will work alongside other Allied Health Professionals including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, a Dietitian, a Clinical Psychologist, assistants and a tracheostomy practitioner. The post holder/s will be expected to drive service development for Speech and Language Therapy and support more junior staff to develop their clinical expertise with Critical Care and complex respiratory patients. The post holder will have clinical experience in critical care and of successful implementation of service improvement in previous roles. We have a newly purchased FEES kit as well as access to videofluoroscopy and therefore competence in instrumental swallowing assessment as well as tracheostomy management is strongly desirable. Development of specific clinical competencies can be supported for the right candidate. This role will be supported with their clinical learning and development by our Band 8a Instrumental Assessment & Complex Dysphagia SLT. ### Main duties of the job - To lead and provide expert SLT care to Critical Care, step down and complex respiratory patients - To provide swallowing and communication assessment for all patients with a new tracheostomy, including those who are mechanically ventilated, as per GPICS standards - To provide timely assessment of all critically ill patients who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties as per GPICS standards - To provide support and education to colleagues both within and outside of the unit. - To demonstrate evidence of clinical expertise in this field and working to evidence based practice ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see job description and person specification for the details of main duties pertaining to this post. ### 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** - Proven leadership skills - Ability to prioritise workload under pressure - Excellent communication skills in a variety of modalities ### Knowledge **Essential** - Evidence of recent relevant CPD - Evidence of implementing service development initiatives - Evidence of implementing relevant evidence based practice - Demonstrates advanced clinical skill and clinical reasoning skills - Evidence of working to national and local drivers for this clinical area ### Experience **Essential** - Evidence of extensive experience in this clinical area - Evidence of teaching and presentation experience - Experience in audit and outcome measures **Desirable** - Working within MDT teams influencing service delivery ### Qualifications **Essential** - HCPC acknowledged qualification in SLT - HCPC registered **Desirable** - Critical care qualification or MSc modules relevant to the post ## Documents - [job pack (pdf, 649.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10540609) ## 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.