Main area Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 223-HSP-668
Employer The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Shrewsbury Hospital Town Shrewsbury Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/ pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing Today at 23:59
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Critical Care
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Speech & Language Therapist to join the critical care service across both Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal Hospital sites. As part of the Trust’s Hospital Transformation Programme, the Critical Care Unit eventually will be solely situated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in a new state of the art building, alongside all emergency and acute services.
This post will work alongside other Allied Health Professionals including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, a Dietitian, a Clinical Psychologist, assistants and a tracheostomy practitioner. The post holder/s will be expected to drive service development for Speech and Language Therapy and support more junior staff to develop their clinical expertise with Critical Care and complex respiratory patients. The post holder will have clinical experience in critical care and of successful implementation of service improvement in previous roles. We have a newly purchased FEES kit as well as access to videofluoroscopy and therefore competence in instrumental swallowing assessment as well as tracheostomy management is strongly desirable. Development of specific clinical competencies can be supported for the right candidate. This role will be supported with their clinical learning and development by our Band 8a Instrumental Assessment & Complex Dysphagia SLT.
Main duties of the job
- To lead and provide expert SLT care to Critical Care, step down and complex respiratory patients
- To provide swallowing and communication assessment for all patients with a new tracheostomy, including those who are mechanically ventilated, as per GPICS standards
- To provide timely assessment of all critically ill patients who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties as per GPICS standards
- To provide support and education to colleagues both within and outside of the unit.
- To demonstrate evidence of clinical expertise in this field and working to evidence based practice
Working for our organisation
We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification for the details of main duties pertaining to this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
- HCPC acknowledged qualification in SLT
- HCPC registered
- Critical care qualification or MSc modules relevant to the post
Experience
- Evidence of extensive experience in this clinical area
- Evidence of teaching and presentation experience
- Experience in audit and outcome measures
- Working within MDT teams influencing service delivery
Knowledge
- Evidence of recent relevant CPD
- Evidence of implementing service development initiativesEvidence of implementing relevant evidence based practice
- Demonstrates advanced clinical skill and clinical reasoning skills
- Evidence of working to national and local drivers for this clinical area
Skills
- Proven leadership skills
- Ability to prioritise workload under pressure
- Excellent communication skills in a variety of modalities
We commit to removing barriers for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions in recruitment, training, and career progression. We will offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible. In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.
We are committed to offering an interview to applicants from the Armed Forces community who meet the minimum criteria for the position. In addition, for those who are successfully appointed from the Armed Forces community, the Trust are committed to recognising previous service and rank in terms of pay, annual leave and other terms and conditions.
We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from an Ethnic minority background are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace, that attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise a fair and equitable process that balances your needs, the needs of our patients and service delivery.
Our Commitment to Safety and Respect - The Trust is a signatory to the NHS Sexual Safety Charter and is committed to a safe, inclusive workplace free from sexual misconduct, harassment, and discrimination.
Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.
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.
Address The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Anchorage Avenue
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
Telephone 01743 492402
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