Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Preston
Job Description:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:
- To communicate and collaborate with all SLT Stakeholders.
- To provide leadership and highly specialist clinical skills within acute medicine and surgery.
- To support personal and people development.
- To ensure the health, safety and security of self and colleagues.
- To support service development and planning.
- To support the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda within SLT.
- To support equality of opportunity and access withing SLT for both staff and patients.
- To directly support delivery of therapy to patients.
- To provide leadership and management support.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- HCPC registration
- RCSLT registration
- Graduate or post-graduate qualification in Speech and Language Pathology
- Post graduate courses in relevant clinical area of Speech and Language Therapy
- Evidence of CPD in relevant areas working towards master’s level
Desirable criteria
- Masters qualification or modules
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly specialised knowledge in clinical area
- Assess, diagnose and manage complex dysphagia
- Assess, diagnose and manage complex communication disorders
- Awareness of emerging assessment and treatment developments and able to critically appraise the evidence base
- Excellent MDT working skills.
- Experience of planning and delivering training/education to MDT
Desirable criteria
- Trained in instrumental dysphagia assessment , VFS and FEES
- Experience undertaking local research projects
- Experience of working with an out-patient case load
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
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Posted: October 15th, 2026