Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Neonates/Acute
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2025 |
| Location: | Hull, HU3 2JZ |
| Company: | Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7302766/356-25-7302766 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
MATERNITY COVER - NEONATES
We are looking for a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist to support our neonatal services at Hull Royal Infirmary. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working in a Level 3 Tertiary Unit, providing intensive input to preterm and sick neonates. You will work as part of a newly-established MDT on the neonatal unit/s, working closely with other medical, nursing and AHP colleagues. You will provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants.
This role will link closely with community paediatric services provided by colleagues working in Humber Foundation trust (Hull), and support and supervision will be enabled, as well as links to wider neonatal networks.
Please make contact if you are potentially interested in this role and require more or less hours – there may be opportunities to explore additional Bank sessions or to cover part of the role.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility salary requirement, therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
To work within the Speech & Language Therapy Team to provide an efficient and effective service in line with the guidance of the Head of Speech & Language Therapy, The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT), the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
To coordinate and lead delivery of a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy service in Neonatal care/acute paediatrics. To promote continuing professional development, evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, and audit/research activity. Advise and provide clinical support in the specialism to community SLTs and other professionals, as applicable.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Jul 2025
MATERNITY COVER - NEONATES
We are looking for a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist to support our neonatal services at Hull Royal Infirmary. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working in a Level 3 Tertiary Unit, providing intensive input to preterm and sick neonates. You will work as part of a newly-established MDT on the neonatal unit/s, working closely with other medical, nursing and AHP colleagues. You will provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants.
This role will link closely with community paediatric services provided by colleagues working in Humber Foundation trust (Hull), and support and supervision will be enabled, as well as links to wider neonatal networks.
Please make contact if you are potentially interested in this role and require more or less hours – there may be opportunities to explore additional Bank sessions or to cover part of the role.
Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility salary requirement, therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.
To work within the Speech & Language Therapy Team to provide an efficient and effective service in line with the guidance of the Head of Speech & Language Therapy, The Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT), the Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
To coordinate and lead delivery of a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy service in Neonatal care/acute paediatrics. To promote continuing professional development, evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, and audit/research activity. Advise and provide clinical support in the specialism to community SLTs and other professionals, as applicable.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
This advert closes on Tuesday 22 Jul 2025