Job overview
Join Us in Making a Difference!
"Shape Bright Futures - Your Skills, Their Voice"
Are you passionate about helping children and young people reach their full potential? Were looking for enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapists to join our dynamic team in the beautiful Tees Valley a region that offers the perfect balance of career development and quality of life.
Following a recent reconfiguration of two separate services into one we have a wide range of clinical posts on offer.
Who Were Looking For
1. HCPC-registered Speech and Language Therapists
2. Passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people
3. Strong communication and teamwork skills
4. Commitment to evidence-based practice and continuous learning
Why Tees Valley?
5. Affordable Living: Enjoy a lower cost of living compared to many UK regions, with excellent housing options.
6. Stunning Surroundings: From the breathtaking North York Moors and coastal walks at Saltburn and Redcar to vibrant urban centres like Middlesbrough and Darlington.
7. Great Connectivity: Easy access to Newcastle, York, and Leeds, plus excellent transport links.
8. Family-Friendly: Outstanding schools, parks, and cultural attractions make this a fantastic place to settle.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
Youll work within a supportive, forward-thinking team leading and delivering highly specialist speech and language therapy services to children and young people across a range of settings, including:
9. Schools and nurseries
10. Hospital and Community clinics
11. Homes and virtual platforms
We embrace innovation and collaboration, offering opportunities to develop specialist skills in a wide range of clinical areas
Current Band 6 opportunities include:
12. Locality teams in Hartlepool, Stockton and Redcar & Cleveland
13. Communication & Interaction: Early Years incl autism
14. Communication & Interaction: School age incl autism
15. Developmental Language disorder
16. CYP with Increased Vulnerability ( LAC, YJS, excluded from education)
Working for our organisation
What We Offer at University Hospitals Tees
17. Flexible working options to support work-life balance
18. Structured career development and CPD opportunities
19. Access to specialist supervision and peer support
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust values and behaviours
Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
20. Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to disorders of human communication
21. Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist clinical area
22. Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff.
23. Well-developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance.
24. Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills.
25. Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
26. Knowledge of national documents, research, NHS and Education policies relating to the specialist area
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
27. Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
28. Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council.
29. A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas
Desirable criteria
30. Evidence of post-graduate study relevant to the post
31. Evidence of leadership training
32. Training in clinical supervision
Experience
Essential criteria
33. Relevant post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
34. Some experience working with children in the specialist area
35. Some experience of providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
36. Working in partnership with children, young people and their families
37. Supporting less experienced staff
Desirable criteria
38. Experience of working in a range of environments, including education settings.
39. Experience of multi-disciplinary working with health, social care and education teams
40. Experience of caseload management
41. Experience of planning and delivering teaching and training
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
42. Ability to work autonomously
43. Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations and working under pressure when needed
44. Proven ability to work successfully in a team
45. Ability to be accountable for professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate
Desirable criteria
46. Skills in making formal presentations
47. Use of Microsoft word processing packages for producing programmes and reports
48. Leadership skills
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. We welcome applications from the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Network; LGBT+ Network; Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions Network, Faith Network, Childless not by Choice Network and the Menopause Support Group.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at
Right to Work in the UK
The Trust welcomes applications from all candidates who meet the criteria for the role. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - (.
Please provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.
Please note that not everyone needs a Skilled Worker visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.
We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - ( and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - (
Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply. If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.