Clinical Lead - Speech Therapy | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 November 2025 |
| Location: | King's Lynn, PE30 5NU |
| Company: | Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7542145/839-7542145-RB |
Summary
• To provide clinical and management leadership to a small group of clinicians, in the delivery of high quality evidence based care.
• ToevaluatetheSpeechandLanguageTherapyservicewithinspecialistarea, makingrecommendationsforimprovementsandfuturedesignofservicesin line with best practice and current guidelines including local and nationalpolicies
• To provide a Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service to community patients with a range of neurological conditions and non neurological conditions utilising highly developed specialist assessment and management skills of dysphagia and communication.
• ToworkaspartoftheMDTtodifferentiallydiagnose,assess,treatand manageswallowingandcommunicationdisorderswithinthespeciality
• ToprovideexpertisetoSpeechandLanguageTherapyandMDTcolleagues, patients and carers through specialist advice and education
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
• Toprovidehighlyspecialistdysphagiaandcommunicationassessmentsto inform accurate diagnoses for patients within specialist area
• Toformulatecomprehensive,patientcentredandindividualtreatment programmes/management plans using highly specialist skills
• Toindependentlycoordinate,allocateandorganisespecialistcaseload including those of junior and assistant staff to meet service priorities ensuring a high standard of clinical care
• Toassesspatientunderstandingoftreatmentplansinvolvingindividualsand significant others in decision making, working within a legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
• Towritecomplexanddetailedreportsreflectingspecialistknowledge
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
Find out more about working for our organisation here:
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2565ae62eb.html
Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
• Tomaintainaccurate,up-to-dateandcomprehensivepatienttreatment records in line withthe Trust,departmentaland professional standards
• To independently manage decision making regarding clinical risk within own patient caseload including patients with complex communication problems and complex dysphagia
• TorepresentSLTserviceatTrustpolicydevelopmentgroupstoensurethat SLT is incorporated into Trust wide developments and initiatives
• Todevelopandimplementpolicyandservicechangesinownclinicalarea and ensure delivery of best practice
• To provide advice and training to a wide range of professionals and client groups regarding themanagement and care of patients with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties
• Todemonstrategood negotiationskills acrossarangeofissuesandto negotiate with others around case management in complex cases (e.g. caseconferences)
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Nov 2025
• ToevaluatetheSpeechandLanguageTherapyservicewithinspecialistarea, makingrecommendationsforimprovementsandfuturedesignofservicesin line with best practice and current guidelines including local and nationalpolicies
• To provide a Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service to community patients with a range of neurological conditions and non neurological conditions utilising highly developed specialist assessment and management skills of dysphagia and communication.
• ToworkaspartoftheMDTtodifferentiallydiagnose,assess,treatand manageswallowingandcommunicationdisorderswithinthespeciality
• ToprovideexpertisetoSpeechandLanguageTherapyandMDTcolleagues, patients and carers through specialist advice and education
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
• Toprovidehighlyspecialistdysphagiaandcommunicationassessmentsto inform accurate diagnoses for patients within specialist area
• Toformulatecomprehensive,patientcentredandindividualtreatment programmes/management plans using highly specialist skills
• Toindependentlycoordinate,allocateandorganisespecialistcaseload including those of junior and assistant staff to meet service priorities ensuring a high standard of clinical care
• Toassesspatientunderstandingoftreatmentplansinvolvingindividualsand significant others in decision making, working within a legal framework for patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
• Towritecomplexanddetailedreportsreflectingspecialistknowledge
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
Find out more about working for our organisation here:
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2565ae62eb.html
Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
• Tomaintainaccurate,up-to-dateandcomprehensivepatienttreatment records in line withthe Trust,departmentaland professional standards
• To independently manage decision making regarding clinical risk within own patient caseload including patients with complex communication problems and complex dysphagia
• TorepresentSLTserviceatTrustpolicydevelopmentgroupstoensurethat SLT is incorporated into Trust wide developments and initiatives
• Todevelopandimplementpolicyandservicechangesinownclinicalarea and ensure delivery of best practice
• To provide advice and training to a wide range of professionals and client groups regarding themanagement and care of patients with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties
• Todemonstrategood negotiationskills acrossarangeofissuesandto negotiate with others around case management in complex cases (e.g. caseconferences)
Please see attached job description for a more complete list of duties.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Nov 2025
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