Vacancy at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
The Buckinghamshire Acute Speech and Language Therapy Team offers a role for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our acute paediatric service at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
The post provides an opportunity to specialise in acute paediatrics and neonatal care, working collaboratively with acute and community paediatric SLT teams, the acute SLT team and MDT colleagues. The post holder will support service delivery and innovation. Experience of delivering instrumental assessment of swallowing for children (Videofluoroscopy) would be beneficial, but training can be provided if required. Competencies in neonatal care are required and the post holder will be supported in ongoing development. They will also have the opportunity to work with children with spinal cord injuries.
This post offers a chance to develop leadership skills; the post holder may be expected to clinically supervise other members of the team and be actively involved in clinical governance of the service. The post would be considered for a band 6 development post for the right applicant.
Responsibilities
* Use highly specialist clinical skills to manage a specialist caseload of paediatric feeding, swallowing and/or acute communication difficulties.
* Identify, assess and diagnose swallowing impairments and implement management programmes or therapy where appropriate.
* Provide specialist input in a range of acute care settings.
* Act as an advisor providing specialist knowledge to a wide range of professions and agencies within the Buckinghamshire health system.
* Independently take students on placement for clinical teaching and supervision.
* Input to the paediatric videofluoroscopy clinic.
* Take responsibility for implementing service‑wide developments as appropriate, including data collection and clinical audit.
The post holder will work alongside speech and language therapy and multi-disciplinary colleagues on the paediatric, spinal and neonatal wards, independently manage their caseloads within these settings, and liaise with the multi-disciplinary team and community speech and language therapy colleagues.
Benefits
* Learning and development opportunities to support career progression.
* Flexible and agile working, generous annual leave entitlement, pension and NHS discount schemes.
* Range of health and well‑being services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Commitment to Inclusion
* Commitment to promoting inclusion and ensuring all colleagues feel they belong.
* Encouragement of new colleagues from diverse backgrounds to apply.
* Creating a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat each other with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity improves positive outcomes for people and communities served.
Values & Vision
* Vision: provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
* Mission: provide personal and compassionate care every time.
* CARE values: collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert.
If you are interested but do not meet all essential requirements, please consider an application as this post can be offered as a developmental role.
For assistance submitting the online application due to disability, contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting vacancy reference number.
Advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026.
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