Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Exciting Opportunity: Adult Speech and Language Therapy Voice and Respiratory Service
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Voice and Respiratory Service at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a motivated SLT to join our experienced team, supporting people with complex voice and upper airway disorders.
About the Role
The successful candidate will have experience in the assessment and management of dysphonia, chronic cough and inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO). Experience in dysphagia is welcomed. Laryngoscopy expertise is desirable, but internal training is available.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with the respiratory multidisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, physiotherapists, clinical psychologists and lung physiologists.
- Attend specialist clinics including Complex Breathlessness, Joint Cough and Exercise-Induced Laryngeal Obstructions clinics, with collaboration with regional Ear, Nose and Throat services.
- Triage voice referrals, manage waiting lists, and perform advanced assessment and management of complex voice and upper airway disorders, both independently and within multidisciplinary clinics.
- Develop advanced competencies in psychotherapeutic approaches and laryngoscopy.
- Lead and contribute to service development, innovation and quality improvement.
- Supervise colleagues and students.
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About Us
Our service is recognised as a leading UK service, with team members contributing to national clinical guidelines, research and teaching. We value ongoing learning through structured CPD, peer supervision and case discussion.
Location
This post is based at North Tyneside General Hospital, with outreach clinics in Hexham and/or Blyth. Locations and frequency can be negotiated.
Why Join Us?
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
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Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Louise Kellett
- Job title: Clinical Lead SLT (Adult SLT service)
- Email address: louise.kellett@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01670396434
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