# Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/d0ad5e67-2c9a-46fe-bfb1-29b16776163c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/d0ad5e67-2c9a-46fe-bfb1-29b16776163c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Town:** Nottingham - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity leave cover) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-15T14:12:56.102Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Nottingham/Nottingham_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8024144 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8024144?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.nuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is an exciting opportunity to join our brilliant team covering a maternity leave post. The post holder will be joining the Specialist Medicine team. Providing a highly specialist service to patients at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust. The team provide input into a wide range of specialties including Acute Medicine, Respiratory, Cancer Services, Surgical specialties and 'front door' services.  You will be joining a large and supportive team of therapists, including 2 Clinical Specialist SLTs, supported by assistant SLT's. There is a FEES and videofluoroscopy service, and training to develop competencies in instrumental dysphagia assessment is available. The team provides a service across both NUH's campuses: City and QMC.  The team has very close links with the MDT and there are opportunities for service development and to enhance your leadership skills. ### Main duties of the job In addition to the below summary  you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert. The post holder will work alongside other Band 7 SLTs in the team and the Clinical Specialist SLT with designated responsibilities for team leadership and clinical care. The post holder is responsible for providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, management and treatment programme to people with communication and swallowing difficulties. The post holder will provide highly specialist clinical expertise, with experience working with a wide range of aetiologies and specialisms. The post holder will provide day to day management of the service and provide high quality clinical supervision. The post holder may also lead on strategic developments within their specialism, in liaison with their colleagues and service leads. This is a full time post and is a fixed term post of 9 months.  We will consider part time.  This post gives the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a supported environment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities In addition to the below summary  you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert. Service delivery To work autonomously to provide a coordinated and highly specialist service to designated specialism within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context  and inform and advise the service leads as to training, resources, trends and development needs To work collaboratively with a variety of different agencies/professionals ensuring management and treatment meets the holistic needs, providing  a well co-ordinated care plan for specialism/setting To represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums To represent speech, language and communication and/or dysphagia needs at agreed forums To participate in multi- disciplinary projects as agreed. Clinical Practice To independently manage, triage and prioritise own complex caseload providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, formulation, diagnosis, intervention and advice based on evidence based practice The post requires Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree HCPC and RCSLT registration Evidence of appropriate CPD post qualifying. Excellent IT skill ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant post graduate experience within this specialist client group, working with dysphagia and communication difficulties autonomously and without direct supervision - Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, and benchmarking - Experience of service development and service planning - Experience of supporting and supervising less experienced staff - Experience of working in the acute setting - Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency **Desirable** - Advanced post-graduate training in dysphagia - FEES/VF competency - Tracheostomy competency - Community experience ### Physical skills **Essential** - Able to undertake SLT inventions in a busy ward-based environment - Able to use computer keyboard, relevant computer programmes including the inputting of data ### Training and Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification. - Additional postgraduate training up to master’s degree equivalent - Health and Care Professions Council License to Practice - Registered member of RCSLT - Post-graduate experience in specialist area **Desirable** - Master's degree ### Analytical and judgement skills **Essential** - To independently provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, formulation, intervention and advice service for individuals, their families, and MDT professionals, using highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence-based practice - Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options, based on well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments and a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions - Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues - Assess and manage risk in own area including identifying clinical risks and carry out MDT Risk assessments as appropriate - Provides and contributes to the analysis of information and data such as caseload statistics, outcomes, activities, contacts, referral patterns ### Planning and organisation skills **Essential** - Plans, manages and prioritises own specialist caseload and those of others - Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload - Effective delegation and time management skills - Plans, organises and delivers in service training and clinical education of students - Ensures appropriate clinical and profession-specific supervision arrangements in place for staff within remit ### Communication and relationship skills **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills - Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers - Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal. - Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills - Demonstrate leadership ability - Demonstrated NUH Trust values ### Other requirements specific to the role **Essential** - Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust - Car driver ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 512.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10458861) - [mindful employer (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1778) - [equal opportunities (pdf, 312.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1780) - [disability confidence scheme (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1781) - [rehabilitation of ex offenders (pdf, 106.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1974) - [band 7 slt person specification (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10310877) - [equality diversity and inclusion (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1779) ## 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.