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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Speech and Language Therapist
Closed for applications on: 7-Aug-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 7-Aug-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Shiremoor Resource Centre
- Address
- Earsdon Road
- Town
- Shiremoor
- Postcode
- NE27 0HJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Complex and Additional Needs Team.
We are looking to recruit an innovative, caring and dynamic SLT who would like to develop their skills in speech, language and communication and eating/drinking difficulties, in children and young people with complex needs and learning disability.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Advert
The post will involve working into the paediatric part of the Complex and Additional Needs Team, working with children and young people aged 2-19 years with a range of complex needs. The successful candidate will work across Northumberland or North Tyneside, working into children’s homes, childcare and nursery/mainstream school settings and specialist provisions.
The successful candidate will work alongside other Therapists to deliver a service to a varied caseload of children/young people; from those who are non-verbal and use a wide range of communication strategies such as objects, signing, AAC to those who use verbal communication skills and are working on developing and extending their speech, language and communication skills. the postholder will be involved in the assessment and management of speech, language, communication difficulties and communication environments, as well as supporting the children’s/young people’s parents/carers’ and/or educational staff to understand and support the child’s communication needs.
The successful candidates will have access in-house and where appropriate external training in eating, drinking and swallowing, Makaton signing, Talking Mats, AAC, social communication interventions etc.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Complex and Additional Needs Speech and Language Therapy team is a small team who are passionate about supporting people with complex needs, their families, their carers’ and professionals.
We have well established and strong connections with our Health, Adult Social Care and Local Authority colleagues allowing us to work in partnership at all levels.
We have regular opportunities for joint CPD and clinical support and supervision with colleagues in the Community Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy team.
We can offer you a highly rewarding post which includes:
Clinical supervision including support to complete NQP competencies, EDS competencies and be part of a bespoke preceptorship programme.
Regular team meetings, peer support and supervision, clinical focus groups and the opportunity to attend Regional Clinical Excellence Networks
Annual Appraisal
In-Service Training.
Opportunities to contribute to Trust and Local Authority quality improvement work and innovations
Opportunity to be actively involved in the design and implementation of the team annual planning
Opportunity to work in partnership with other Health colleagues and Local Authority Services to ensure the highest quality of care
Opportunity to work with the Regional Communication Aid Service (RCAS) when coordinating care and engaging in development work
Close links with Newcastle University.
Close working with Clinical Leads, Consultant and Highly Specialist SLTs in Dysphagia, AAC and Stammering in relation to evidence-based practice, innovation, audit and caseload management
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Fawcett
- Job title
- Clinical Lead SLT, CAN Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2979031
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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