Advanced Speech & Language Therapist

• Act as the Clinical Lead for the Coastal Adult SLT Team, providing specialist clinical guidance and leadership
• Deliver a highly specialist SLT service to adults with communication and swallowing disorders across acute and community settings
• Hold clinical responsibility for complex caseloads, ensuring evidence-based assessment, treatment, and outcome measurement
• Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, promoting collaborative, integrated care
• Support service development and transformation, identifying opportunities to improve patient pathways and experience
• Deputise for the Operational Team Lead in their absence, contributing to service delivery, workforce planning, and operational decision-making
• Provide clinical supervision, teaching, and mentorship to therapists, support staff, students and apprentices.
• Ensure effective governance, including audit, risk management, and quality improvement initiatives
• Monitor demand and capacity, ensuring safe, responsive, and sustainable service delivery

• Apply advanced clinical reasoning to support patients with complex communication and swallowing needs
• Act as an expert resource within the team and wider SLT service
• Ensure care is person-centred, evidence-based, and outcome-focused

• Support the operational management of the team, including performance, workforce planning, and resource allocation
• Contribute to service transformation and innovation, aligning with Trust strategy
• Maintain strong working relationships with MDT colleagues and system partners

• Ensure adherence to Trust policies, professional standards, and regulatory requirements
• Contribute to data collection and analysis to inform service improvements

• Support staff development through training, competency frameworks, and appraisal processes
• Promote a culture of learning, psychological safety, and continuous improvement

• Support delivery of key performance indicators (KPIs) and service objectives
• Contribute to managing demand, capacity, and service pressures effectively

Essential

• Degree (or recognised equivalent) in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
• Postgraduate and experiential training in relevant areas
• Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role

Desirable

• Management qualification or willingness to undertake

Essential

• Significant experience of supervision provision
• Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
• Experience of managing a multi-professional team / collaborative working

Desirable

• Experience of managing a team or other relevant management experience.

Essential

• Demonstrable expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
• Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
• Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
• Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice
• Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
• Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies

Essential

• Car driver with own transport