Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
Highly Specialist SLT Preschool Complex Needs/Dysphagia
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Highly Specialist SLT Preschool Complex Needs/Dysphagia
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust’s Children and Young People’s Therapies (CYPT) Service
Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust’s Children and Young People’s Therapies (CYPT) Service is excited to be able to offer a rare Band 7 opportunity within its Speech and Language Therapy Team. Due to imminent maternity leave, we are looking to recruit an SLT with specialist level dysphagia competencies, who has experience working with infants and children aged newborn to five with complex dysphagia and communication needs associated with a range of medical conditions. Experience of hospital working and videofluoroscopy would also be of benefit.
This post is available for 9 months to support the clinical caseload across East and North Hertfordshire.
You will be expected to work autonomously undertaking specialist assessment to differentially diagnose feeding and swallowing difficulties, identify risk, and implement a management plan for infants and children, including children with highly complex medical conditions.
Proposed interview date: 22nd July 2026
As a Band 7 You Will
- Triage and prioritise referrals based on identified risk and ensure assessments are completed with required timeframes.
- Have overview and overall responsibility for the dysphagia and complex needs caseload within the locality.
- Be the lead therapist in a multi-professional feeding clinic.
- Provide professional supervision to less experienced colleagues and supporting development of dysphagia competencies as indicated/appropriate.
- Work with children and families within their home; or in children's centres, early years specialist development centres, nursery, and clinic settings.
- Complete communication assessments as part of EHCP process and provide second opinions for children with complex needs.
- Work collaboratively with the highly specialist SLTs to ensure best practice and evidence-based delivery of high-quality care systems are in place.
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We Offer
- Regular group professional supervision and peer support.
- Working as part of a supportive team of highly specialist SLTs.
- Regular managerial supervision and a well-established appraisal system.
- Internal and external CPD opportunities such as bitesize tutorials, peer review, CENs.
- A 2-week induction period where you will have the opportunity to observe and shadow colleagues across a range of clinical areas/settings.
- Regular meetings with Clinical Quality Leads and Operational Leads to plan and implement service delivery and service development.
If you are looking for somewhere to make a real difference and are passionate about helping CYP access the right support at the right time to help them stay safe, and thrive in their development, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At HCT, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.
We are proud to be an organisation which focuses on our people, and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.
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Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture, guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do, ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.
Our patients, their families, and carers are at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities.
Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring, and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.
We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.
You’ve made a great decision to apply to join HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.
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For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Lyn Humphrey
- Job title: Operational Manager, CYP Therapies
- Email address: lyn.humphrey@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07827 883686
If you would like to contact us for further information about this post, please contact Julie Morris, Clinical Quality Lead for SLT, on 07881941840.
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