Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Head and Neck

York, England, United Kingdom

6/18/2025

Are you a passionate and experienced Speech and Language therapist, ready to lead innovation? A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Lead Speech and Language therapist in head and neck.

You will work closely with speech and language therapists and multi-professional colleagues across the Trust and to ensure high quality care is provided for all patients in the service. You will also have the opportunity to influence change in service delivery, work effectively in local and regional teams and lead improvement and innovation across head and neck pathways. We are ideally looking for an experienced and autonomous individual who has knowledge and skill in laryngectomy and surgical voice restoration. We have an established Videofluoroscopy service and have recently been successful in funding for a FEES Service.

This an excellent opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge within head and neck services, alongside expanding your skills across each of the Four Pillars of Practice. This role has a strong component of leading clinical transformation and improvement projects across clinical areas within the service. There will be opportunities to engage in research, present your work and educate in the areas of your clinical expertise. You will also be expected to support the learning and development of other speech and language therapists and multi-professional colleagues through training, supervision and reflective practice.

• To provide visible clinical leadership for speech and language therapy across clinical service, with a focus on head and neck, which includes autonomously managing a complex caseload, evaluation of quality and service performance and creating a culture of learning and development.
• To use evidenced based highly specialist skills to manage a complex head and neck caseload, which includes laryngectomy, surgical voice restoration, tracheostomy and late effects. This will be in outpatient and inpatient setting.
• Provide training/support to staff, patients and their carers. You need to be resilient and able to manage and prioritise your caseload whilst supporting the work and development of the team.
• The speech and language therapy department provides clinical inpatient and outpatient services to a variety of specialities, including critical care, voice, ENT, stroke and community. The department is well established in facilitating the training of speech and language therapy students and staff are involved in delivering a variety of rolling training programmes for other health care professionals across the Trust, relating to eating, drinking and communication.
• You will be part of a supportive senior speech and language leadership team, including other clinical lead speech and language therapists, team manager, as well as senior operational manager and speech and language therapy professional lead.
  
  

You will join a friendly team of over 20 speech and language therapists. You will be primarily based at York Hospital and will travel to Scarborough and other Trust localities regularly.

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
  
  

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sally Ann Richardson Job title: AHP Senior Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07970 372785

Helena Perry - AHP Team manager

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 01904 725768 / 07554115457

If you think this post is for you, please call for an informal discussion and we welcome your application.