Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Acute & HDRU
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“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.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join Mental Health services at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves providing expert clinical input and leadership across the trust, initially split between the Phoenix High Dependency Rehab Unit and other acute/older peoples mental health wards. The post holder will shape practice, influence services, and develop others at an advanced level, focusing on improving outcomes for people with severe and enduring mental health needs.
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist
- Undergraduate qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
- Portfolio evidence of reflective practice, relevant experience, and CPD.
- Evidence of relevant post graduate courses
- Post Graduate qualification in dysphagia management
- Extensive portfolio evidence of reflective practice, advanced competencies, and continuous professional development
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Relevant Masters level postgraduate modules or equivalent experience
- Training in quality improvement, service redesign or research methods
Desirable criteria
- Management/leadership courses
- Evidence of advanced specialist training in mental health speech and language therapy, including complex communication needs, dysphagia, neurodevelopmental conditions and capacity / consent
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a speech and language therapist, including advanced specialist experience within mental health services
- Experience of independently managing a highly complex, high-risk clinical caseload involving diagnostic uncertainty, safeguarding, capacity, and ethical dilemmas
- Demonstrable experience of providing clinical leadership within an MDT, influencing care planning, risk management and discharge Formal experience of supervising qualified staff, assistants and/or students, including responsibility for developing others' practice
- Lead or significant contributor to clinical audit, service evaluation, research or quality improvement initiatives
- Experience of delivering specialist training to SLT colleagues and wider MDT
- Experience of leading service development or redesign within mental health or specialist services
- Experience of appraisal, performance development review or workforce development
- Experience of representing SLT at Trust-wide or system-level forums
- Involvement in regional or national professional networks, projects or working groups
- Understanding and knowledge of clinical governance issues within own clinical practice and wider implications for delivery of patient services.
- Highly developed communication skills, able to convey complex, sensitive or contentious information in emotionally charged and challenging environment
- Ability to persuade, negotiate and influence practice change across professional boundaries
- Confidence in providing expert clinical advice, supervision and challenge, including managing disagreement and professional risk
- Ability to support patients, carers and staff in situations involving distress, trauma, aggression or highly emotive content
- Demonstrated leadership behaviours: resilience, accountability, professional authority and role modelling
- Strong commitment to equality, anti-oppressive practice and reducing health inequalities
- Ability to plan, prioritise and review complex clinical and service activity, balancing competing demands and risk
- Advanced analytical and clinical reasoning skills, including management of uncertainty and non-standard situations
- Ability to lead service activity, delegate effectively and support others in workload management
- Experience of contributing to or leading governance activity, audits or policy implementation
- Highly developed time management and decision-making skills
- Highly developed communication skills, able to convey complex, sensitive or contentious information in emotionally charged and challenging environments
- HCPC Registered Speech and Language Therapist
- Undergraduate qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
- Portfolio evidence of reflective practice, relevant experience, and CPD.
- Evidence of relevant post graduate courses
- Post Graduate qualification in dysphagia management
- Extensive portfolio evidence of reflective practice, advanced competencies, and continuous professional development
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Relevant Masters level postgraduate modules or equivalent experience
- Training in quality improvement, service redesign or research methods
- Management/leadership courses
- Evidence of advanced specialist training in mental health speech and language therapy, including complex communication needs, dysphagia, neurodevelopmental conditions and capacity / consent
- Substantial post-qualification experience as a speech and language therapist, including advanced specialist experience within mental health services
- Experience of independently managing a highly complex, high-risk clinical caseload involving diagnostic uncertainty, safeguarding, capacity, and ethical dilemmas
- Demonstrable
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Acute & HDRU
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join our Mental Health services at Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a rare and rewarding opportunity to work at the forefront of specialist mental health speech and language therapy, providing expert clinical input and leadership across the trust. This will initially be 2 days in Phoenix High Dependency Rehab Unit and 3 days in other acute / older peoples mental health wards across the trust. We will work with the post holder to develop a working pattern which means that all of our wards will benefit from speech and language therapy input.
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated clinician who is passionate about improving outcomes for people with severe and enduring mental health needs, and who is ready to shape practice, influence services and develop others at an advanced level. This will be one of the first roles in Speech and Language Therapy in mental health at RDaSH and we are invested in this being a success. You will be supported through peer networks, cross trust supervision and support from senior clinical leadership including the Chief Allied Health Professional in the t
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