Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7600111/214-CSTO-7600111 |
Summary
Join our dedicated team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working within ENT and Critical Care. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, motivated, and passionate SLT to take the next step in their career.
In this role, you will provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy services to adults and children across inpatient, community, and specialist settings. You will assess, diagnose, and manage a range of speech, language, communication, and dysphagia needs, including those related to physical health, mental health, and developmental conditions. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will deliver individual and group therapy, training, and advice, using consultative and coaching approaches to empower patients, families, and carers.
You will play a key role in preventative work, offering guidance to parents, carers, and professionals to support communication and safe eating and drinking. This position requires a high level of clinical expertise to ensure well-coordinated, proactive, and effective care tailored to individual needs.
Apply now and become a vital part of our progressive team at King’s Mill Hospital.
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
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.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025
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