Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (ENT)

Job overview

Do you want to develop your skills in Head and Neck Cancer/ENT-related voice, upper airway and swallowing disorders?  We have a rare permanent full-time position available.  Based at the Freeman hospital, you will be integral to a busy but highly supportive team of SLTs as well as being a valued member of multi-disciplinary teams. Training will be provided in required specialist areas and you will have access to frequent FEES/VF clinics and joint respiratory/ENT specialist clinics due to our close working relationships with these specialties. We are one of the busiest H&N units in the country, highly innovative and active in research. Our voice/upper airways service is also nationally renowned. As a department we support and host national conferences and training programmes, and are committed to teaching, audit, quality improvement and research. We have close links with both Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.

• Interview date:12 June 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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Main duties of the job

We are looking for an exceptional individual who has a solid background working in complex dysphagia, ideally with some voice and/or head and neck experience including using endoscopic assessment though this is not essential and training can be offered. A compassionate team member who is industrious, you will be rewarded with opportunities to gain skills and experience in highly specialist areas.  Freeman Hospital has a dedicated ENT/OMFS ward. It also hosts the Northern Centre for Cancer Care where radiotherapy is delivered and Oncology wards are based. We input to complex respiratory clinics at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, including specialist paediatric voice/upper airway disorder clinics held at the Great North Children's Hospital. This is a rare opportunity, and we would welcome any declarations of interest/queries to discuss further - please do not hesitate to get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assess, diagnose, treat, and manage own highly specialist caseload of clients with routine and complex voice and upper airway disorders as well as swallowing difficulties arising as a result of a range of ENT and respiratory conditions, including head and neck cancer (HNC). • To provide highly specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. • To support joint clinics with ENT and respiratory colleagues. • To provide day to day coordination, support and clinical supervision of speech and language therapists, assistants, and students. • To develop and deliver highly specialist training to other colleagues including SLT colleagues, multidisciplinary team colleagues and other professionals • To pursue and acquire ongoing highly specialist knowledge and expertise in voice and ENT conditions affecting communication and swallowing as well as in conditions of the upper airway including inducible laryngeal obstruction and chronic cough. • To implement all Trust and Departmental policies and procedures in own working practice and comment on policies being developed. • To provide input to the teaching, research, audit and service development functions of the department.