Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust on a permanent basis. The successful applicant will join the Stroke Team working both on the Acute Stroke Unit at King's Mill Hospital and the Stroke Rehabilitation Ward based at Mansfield Community Hospital.

The stroke service covers weekends and therefore the successful applicant will need to work weekends on a rota basis. This is a full time post.

You will be joining a forward thinking innovative team at an exciting time. The team has a focus on compassionate leadership, staff well-being and valuing every member of the team for their unique contributions.

Apply now to join our team!

Details
Date posted: 23 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Closing date: 05 November 2026

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found on GOV.UK (Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs). Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification
• Essential: Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Essential: Registered member of RCSLT
• Essential: Evidence of successful completion of short courses related to client group

Experience

• Essential: Relevant post-graduate experience in specialist area including experience with working with dysphagia and communication difficulties
• Essential: Experience of service planning
• Essential: Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Essential: Experience of goal setting
• Desirable: Experience with AAC
• Desirable: Acute working
• Desirable: Advanced Dysphagia Training
• Desirable: Experience of delivering training

Knowledge

• Essential: Well established knowledge of assessment tools and treatment for specialist group
• Essential: Established knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
• Essential: Specialist skills in dysphagia
• Essential: Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Essential: Good presentation skills both written and verbal
• Essential: Demonstrates effective ability to prioritise a large caseload
• Essential: Demonstrates the ability to work well in a team and to see the benefits of teamwork
• Essential: Knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
• Essential: Understanding of the principles of clinical governance/audit
• Essential: Knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Essential: Enthusiasm to become involved in new initiatives

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.

Employer contact details
Speech and Language Therapy Service Lead: Emma Dawkins, emma.dawkins@nhs.net, 07501681353

Apply through our website.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice is available on the Trust website.