Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Nottingham University Hospitals Town Nottingham Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/08/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist ENT
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking for a highly specialist band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to join our ENT /HNC SLT Service. This is an exciting time to become part of our forward-looking, supportive team. If you are looking to take the next step of your career in ENT /HNC SLT, we would love to discuss how you could join us and take advantage of the considerable opportunities for specialist training and professional development alongside our clinical experts. We offer flexible working patterns in a large teaching hospital.
This is a vacancy for a part-time (0.8WTE) substantive band 7 highly specialist SLT post working primarily within our ENT Laryngology service. You will ideally have recent relevant experience and demonstrate highly specialist clinical skills and decision-making in the management of complex voice, communication and swallowing problems, and an enthusiasm to learn. The successful applicant will access to regular mentoring, training and clinical supervision. You will join our established and supportive SLT HNC team in an innovative, research-active department’.
Main duties of the job
Please note: candidates should also refer to the full job description and person specifications attached to this vacancy advert
1. independently provide a highly specialist SLT assessment, diagnosis, intervention and advice service to patients with voice, swallowing and communication impairments within the ENT pathways, as well as services to families, support staff and professionals
2. To undertake, interpret, and act on findings of diagnostic assessments (EEL; FEES; Video fluoroscopy x-ray swallow) in line with RCSLT competency and clinical banding
3. To provide clinical opinion and recommendations for complex patients in joint ENT Consultant /SLT outpatient-clinics, including joint voice clinics, neuro-laryngology clinics, and complex airway clinics, with access to regular supervision from pathway leads
4. To be skilled in managing a range of clinical voice/vocal fold movement disorders; using and interpreting instrumental assessment procedures (endoscopic evaluation of larynx; acoustic assessments); clinical evaluation scales and outcome measures; and with an established knowledge of a broad range of therapeutic interventions related to the specialist client group including direct and indirect voice therapy, counselling approaches, and laryngeal manipulation.
Working for our organisation
The SLT ENT/HNC Service sits within the Surgery Division of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust and is a stand-alone SLT service. We benefit from strong HNC / ENT Surgical Division leadership and support at NUH as well as close links with other SLT Services within the hospital and across Nottinghamshire.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note : Candidates should familiarise themselves with the separate job description and person specification for this role and make specific reference to these in their application
Key job responsibilities
Service Delivery
1. To prioritise and manage a large and diverse caseload ensuring practice is in line with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists’ Position Papers and Quality Guidelines, and the HCPC professional regulations.
2. To develop, deliver and monitor highly specialist interventions for patients within the defined pathway, encompassing all aspects of complex diagnosis and management for effective swallowing and communication
3. To independently manage and prioritise own complex caseload in a highly specialist area.
4. To work collaboratively with a variety of different agencies/professionals across primary and secondary care; social services and the Voluntary sector
5. To be responsible for planning, provision, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of learning and development to other professionals within specialist clinical area
6. To represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums as delegated by ENT SLT clinical lead
Clinical Practice
1. To independently provide a highly specialist SLT assessment, diagnosis, intervention and advice service to patients with voice, swallowing and communication impairments within the ENT pathways, as well as services to families, support staff and professionals
2. To undertake, interpret, and act on findings of diagnostic assessments (EEL; FEES; Videofloroscopy x-ray swallow) in line with RCSLT competency and clinical banding
3. To provide clinical opinion and recommendations for complex patients in joint ENT Consultant /SLT outpatient-clinics, including joint voice clinics, neuro-laryngology clinics, and complex airway clinics, with access to regular supervision from pathway leads
4. To be skilled in managing a range of clinical voice/vocal fold movement disorders; using and interpreting instrumental assessment procedures (endoscopic evaluation of larynx; acoustic assessments); clinical evaluation scales and outcome measures; and with an established knowledge of a broad range of therapeutic interventions related to the specialist client group including direct and indirect voice therapy, counselling approaches, and laryngeal manipulation.
5. To take responsibility for managing patients with swallowing disorders, recognising complications of aspiration, and compromised nutrition and hydration, working closely with multi-professional agencies including primary care and palliative/end of life teams to ensure best clinical practice and patient safety
6. To develop skills in the assessment and management of complex surgical airway patients including voice and swallowing assessment and management pre-and post surgery, with access to supervision from pathway leads
Clinical Leadership
1. Provide clinical training and supervision to junior SLT staff, SLT students and SLT assistant/technical instructor.
2. To delegate to assistant SLT, administrative and nursing staff.
3. To identify and contribute to team objectives reflecting local and national health and social care priorities
4. To implement national and local policy relevant to specialist clinical area, ensuring service is consistent with these, and contributing to strategic planning
Clinical Governance
1. To monitor and assess clinical competencies of junior staff and assistants within the clinical specialism
2. To maintain a highly specialised knowledge base within particular clinical expertise
3. Identify and minimise risk in order to enable safe working practices, advising the Pathway Lead and Head of Service of any concerns, includes maintaining pathway risk register, medical devices register etc
4. To contribute to the clinical governance activities of the NUH ENT/HNC Service including reporting from incidents, near misses, complaints
5. To proactively contribute to regional or national clinical excellence networks, either uni professional RCSLT groups or multi professional agencies
Research, and Learning & Development
1. To ensure service delivery in delegated lead area is underpinned by available research evidence
2. To be responsible for the development, provision and evaluation of programmes of learning and development for speech and language therapy staff including provision and/or coordination of student placements, mentoring and/or supervision of junior staff and assistants.
3. As a requirement of the post undertake research and/or audit in accordance with the needs of the trust and the profession, contributing to the growing body of local and national evidence
Person specification
Professional Registration
* Member of RCSLT
* Registered with HCPC
Experience
* significant experience of working with specialist caseload using a range of appropriate therapeutic and assessment tools
* • Recent experience of working in an acute setting with high throughput and high volume caseload
* • Experience of working in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams
* • Evidence of attendance at post-graduate training and short courses in clinical area to achieve competencies in line with RCLST position statements eg SVR;FEES; tracheostomy
* • Evidence of strong commitment to team and partnership working, and leadership skills
* • Well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments relevant to specialist client group and extensive knowledge of a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions
* Recent experience of working with dysphagia and competent in line with RCSLT banding
* Recent experience of working jointly in outpatient consultant clinics
* • Experience/skills as FEES practitioner as demonstrated through RCSLT competencies
* • Experience /skills of tracheostomy as demonstrated by RCLST competencies
* • Experience /skills of VFSS as demonstrated by RCLST competencies
* • Experience of planning, provision, monitoring and evaluation of programmes of learning and development to other professionals within specialist area
* Experience/skills of EEL assessments as demonstrated through RCSLT competencies
___________________________________________________________________________________
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications
If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:
* Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
* Start an Apprenticeship
* Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
ID and Right to work checks : NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent:
* Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
* Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Katherine Behenna Job title Head of Service SLT ENT / H&NC Service NUH Email address katherine.behenna1@nhs.net Telephone number 0115 924 9924 Additional information
For an informal discussion please contact us on 0115 924 9924 ext 877421; or email Katherine.behenna1@nhs.net or Cathy Gass, benign voice pathway lead (cathy.gass@nhs.net)
#J-18808-Ljbffr