Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the GHC Voice Service for an experienced and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist with leadership experience and advanced clinical skills in voice management.

A Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Adult Physical Health Speech and Language Therapy Team, you will provide expert assessment, diagnosis and management for adults with communication, voice and swallowing disorders, including patients referred through ENT and other specialist pathways. Working closely with ENT Consultants at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, you will deliver joint Voice Clinics and provide specialist voice and dysphagia intervention as part of a multidisciplinary team.

We are seeking a dynamic clinician to lead and develop our Voice Service, which includes individual appointments, specialist voice clinics and voice therapy groups. You will manage complex cases, provide specialist advice and support to colleagues, and contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

Joining our friendly and supportive team, you will be encouraged to lead innovation and service improvements whilst accessing regular peer supervision, CPD opportunities and team meetings.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated clinician who is passionate about voice services, leadership and delivering outstanding patient outcomes while helping shape the future of specialist voice services across Gloucestershire.

Main duties of the job

• To independently manage a highly specialist and complex caseload. This will involve screening, in depth assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and review of adults with acute, chronic and complex acquired disorders of swallowing, voice and communication.
• To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to competency levels of other therapists.
• Collaborate with the wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide targeted management and rehabilitation for patients.
• To supervise SLT assistants, newly qualified and experienced SLTs.

Job responsibilities

• To provide specialist SLT assessment, diagnosis and intervention to adults and young adults (aged 16-18) with difficulties relating to ENT disorders.
• To work collaboratively with colleagues in the primary, secondary and tertiary services who are involved with care for patients on the caseload ensuring a seamless, high quality service.
• To provide second opinions for other colleagues in specialist area.
• To work as a member of the SLT team for adults with acquired difficulties of communication voice and / or swallowing, providing supervision to other SLTs.
• Responsible and accountable for the management of own highly specialist clinical caseload of patients with complex communication, voice and/or swallowing difficulties. This will necessitate prioritisation of a risk assessed caseload.
• To utilise evidence-based knowledge within specialist clinical area through experience and academic study to a post graduate level.
• To evaluate and make management and discharge decisions with a high level of competence.
• To record and interpret personally generated clinical observations and provide feedback for clients/carers/professionals and relevant others at a highly specialist level
• To provide highly specialist differential diagnosis, second opinions, clinical advice and care plans/therapy to clients with communication, voice and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties. This includes analysis of facts and a comparison of a range of options for appropriate intervention, implementing specialist programmes where appropriate.
• To monitor and evaluate clinical effectiveness using provided support, evidence based practice and outcome measures.
• To undertake, analyse and interpret specialist assessments (Tracheostomy and/or Videofluoroscopy and/or FEES and /or Voice Clinic images based on competencies).

Qualifications
Essential:

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Post Grad experience relevant to Speech and Language Therapy
• HCPC Membership

Experience
Essential:

• Experience of working in a Voice Service
• Experience of running groups
• Dysphagia competent
• Experience of working with Voice symptoms

Desirable:

• FEES trained

Leadership
Essential:

• Experience of providing supervision

Desirable:

• Evidence of leading / participating in service development

Other
Essential:

• UK Driving licence

Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year pro rata
Band: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Closing date: 19 November 2026
Location: Southgate Moorings, 2 Kimbrose Way, Gloucester, GL1 2DB

Contact: Hayley Sorensen, Operational Manager, hayley.sorensen@nhs.net, 03004228105

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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