Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a skilled and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist to join the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team at Scarborough Hospital. You will manage a varied caseload including progressive neurology, frailty, dementia, and respiratory conditions, delivering care across inpatient, community, and outpatient settings. The position involves highly specialist assessment, treatment, and advice for communication and swallowing disorders, including AAC and dysphagia care. You will also contribute to leadership, support colleagues' development, and participate in quality improvement projects.
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Speech & Language Therapist
- Evidence of relevant structured CPD activities
- Evidence of significant post graduate training within specialist area
- Post graduate qualification relevant to role and clinical specialty
Desirable criteria
- Masters level study within relevant area of practice or research and evidence-based practice
- Evidence of significant personal development in relevant specialist area
- Practice placement supervisor qualification
- Experience & Knowledge
- Experience in specialist role, including the management of a range of specialist conditions, with substantial evidence of additional knowledge acquired through formal and informal clinical supervision
- Evidence of ability to lead and act as an authority on the management of complex clinical presentations in specialist area
- Substantial experience of assessment and provision of specialist interventions including AAC and dysphagia care where appropriate.
- Significant experience of delivering clinical treatment within specialist area
- In-depth understanding of current issues in health care Standards of Professional Practice
- Highly experienced in the identification and use of outcome measures to evaluate clinical treatment
- Highly developed specialist clinical skills within relevant area
- Significant experience of training/supporting others (including students) within specialist clinical area
- Evidence of having led the delivery of relevant audit/research projects
- Evidence of progression through career pathway or framework
- Evidence of enhanced communication skills and the ability to use different communication methods and styles, relevant to specialt
- Qualifications and Training
- HCPC registered Speech & Language Therapist
- Evidence of relevant structured CPD activities
- Evidence of significant post graduate training within specialist area
- Post graduate qualification relevant to role and clinical specialty
- Masters level study within relevant area of practice or research and evidence-based practice
- Evidence of significant personal development in relevant specialist area
- Practice placement supervisor qualification
- Experience & Knowledge
- Experience in specialist role, including the management of a range of specialist conditions, with substantial evidence of additional knowledge acquired through formal and informal clinical supervision
- Evidence of ability to lead and act as an authority on the management of complex clinical presentations in specialist area
- Substantial experience of assessment and provision of specialist interventions including AAC and dysphagia care where appropriate.
- Significant experience of delivering clinical treatment within specialist area
- In-depth understanding of current issues in health care Standards of Professional Practice
- Highly experienced in the identification and use of outcome measures to evaluate clinical treatment
- Highly developed specialist clinical skills within relevant area
- Significant experience of training/supporting others (including students) within specialist clinical area
- Evidence of having led the delivery of relevant audit/research projects
- Evidence of progression through career pathway or framework
- Evidence of enhanced communication skills and the ability to use different communication methods and styles, relevant to specialt
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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York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a skilled, resourceful and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist, with experience of managing patients with complex dysphagia and communication impairments?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our existing Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team.
The Medical Adult Speech and Language Therapy team based at Scarborough Hospital is responsible for delivering care across aspects of the patient journey e.g. outpatients, community and inpatients.
You will be working with a varied caseload, including progressive neurology, frailty, dementia, respiratory, and other aetiologies. Work will be mixed across inpatient wards, community visits and our specialist outpatient clinic space.
The role will be based at Scarborough Hospital and will deliver input to patients in their own homes by providing assessment, differential diagnosis and management/therapy for communication and swallowing disorders. We have a weekly Speech and Language Therapy led Videofluoroscopy service.
Please Note: The ability to transport yourself and equipment across the locality and Trust sites during the course of a normal working day is required for this vacancy.
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