Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

Are you a passionate and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist ready to take the next steps in your career? Join our supportive and forward thinking acute SLT team and play a vital role in delivering high quality care to patients at a critical time in their recovery.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your acute clinical expertise, working across a diverse caseload including neurology, frailty, critical care, respiratory and general medicine. You'll be part of a friendly and highly skilled MDT where your voice is valued and innovation encouraged.

As a Band 6 in Acute Services you will:

• Deliver evidence based assessment and intervention for adults with communication and swallowing disorders.
• Manage a varied and fast paced caseload.
• Work closely with consultants, nurses, AHPs and therapy colleagues.
• Support service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and support students and junior staff.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient‑centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation – this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Date posted: 12 February 2026
Band: 6
Salary: £38,682 to £40,823 a year

Contract:

Permanent
Working pattern:
Part‑time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number: C
Job locations:
Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD

Key Duties:

Patient/client care:

• To assess, develop and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment.
• To write reports reflecting specialist knowledge.
• To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.
• To provide advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
• To ensure that patients are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
• To demonstrate negotiation skills.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
• To adapt practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
• To demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.

Policy/service development/implementation:

• To contribute to interagency/multi-disciplinary team building.
• To be aware of, adhere to and implement service and team plans and policies.
• To use specialist knowledge to inform service/policy developments as appropriate.

Financial and physical resources:

• To monitor stock levels in own service area and request new equipment as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to clients.

Human resources:

• To supervise the work of assistants and volunteers.
• To participate in student placements as appropriate.
• To provide mentoring and supervision to more junior Speech…