Specialist Speech & Language Therapist: Sponsorship Available

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are excited to offer an opportunity to join the SLT service within Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. We work with adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disability in inpatient and community services. We are seeking a full time (permanent) Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Adult Community Integrated Team with a mixed communication and Dysphagia caseload.

The SLT services support a variety of speech, language and communication and/or dysphagia needs, covering community and specialist settings across the city and county for adults with physical, mental health needs or developmental conditions/delay including Intellectual Disability and Developmental Language Disorder.

The SLT services also include preventative information and guidance, working to empower parents, carers, other professionals and agencies to support speech, language and communication skills as well as eating and drinking.

You will be well supported by senior colleagues, with opportunities for peer support, supervision, and CPD.

The role involves close work with colleagues from a range of disciplines and you will be contributing to a multi-disciplinary service supporting adults with intellectual disabilities in settings across Nottingham City and/or North Nottinghamshire.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to support the person to live well with their mental health, communication and eating/ drinking needs.

The post holder is responsible for providing specialist SLT assessment, formulation and diagnosis, requiring advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking, reflection and interpretation and analysis, and subsequent therapy/management programmes within the designated specialism/setting/district.

The post holder may also support senior colleagues around strategic developments within their specialism/setting/district in liaison with their line manager. They will also support senior colleagues in the development and delivery of training and professional mentorship in their specialism/setting/district.

The post holder will provide specialist clinical expertise and within specialism/setting/district

Person Specification

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Qualificationsl

Essential

  • Recognised SLT Degree/diploma
  • HCPC Registered
  • NQT competencies completed

Training

Essential

  • Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD
  • Post basic dysphagia training or completed competencies

Desirable

  • Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD
  • Post basic dysphagia training or completed competencies

Experience

Essential

  • Working experience of assessing and managing caseloads within clinical area
  • Experience of effective multi disciplinary/agency working
  • Experience of enabling different staff groups to understand issues around communication
  • Experience of supporting students and other staff

Desirable

  • Experience of delivering a variety of approaches to SLT service delivery
  • Experience in developing evaluation / audit tools and resources as part of SLT team
  • Experience of delivering Learning and development opportunities for others

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge of SLT delivery including the use of different approaches and multi-disciplinary working, across different contexts and environments.
  • Knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
  • Knowledge of different assessments and interventions to working with adults with an intellectual disability

Skills

Essential

  • Empathetic and psychologically minded
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Well organized
  • Good reasoning skills
  • Motivated and a motivator
  • Team builder and team member
  • Ability to manage own well-being with access to supervision to sustain this
  • Reflective practitioner

Values and Behaviours

Essential

  • All staff should be able to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion as identified within the Trust’s Equality and Diversity Policy and associated Equality, Diversity and Human Rights legislation
  • All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 9 September 2026

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