Job summary
- Main area
- AHP
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 388-7872245-FC&I
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Torbay hospital
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Clinical Lead in Voice
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Torbay & South Devon Speech & Language Therapy Team have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced band 7 Therapist to join our friendly and supportive team in a permanent position, based in beautiful South Devon, with easy access to beautiful beaches and moors. The position is part-time, 22.5 hours/week.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual, with a passion for working with voice disorders, who will lead and develop our service in this specialist area providing a speech & language therapy service for adults and children with voice disorders. You will be a core member of the SLT Team and ENT team and will be required to provide clinical support and training to the wider SLT Team as well as line-managing a small voice therapy team.
We are an innovative and motivated team within a supportive and collaborative environment that offers:
- close links with ENT colleagues
- regular voice clinics and SLT led clinics
- 1:1 regular management supervision.
- Access to clinical supervision 1:1 and in peer groups.
- Joint working and second opinions with our clinical specialists.
- Regular opportunities for CPD
Main duties of the job
· To provide a highly specialist and comprehensive service of assessment, diagnosis, therapy and management to adults and children with voice disorders
· To jointly run the Joint Voice Clinic with the Voice Specialist ENT Consultant supporting diagnosis and advising on appropriate treatment options
· To run the SLT led Parallel Voice Clinic assessing patients newly referred to ENT via nasendoscopic evaluation of the larynx in lieu of the ENT Consultant in accordance with RCSLT competencies and guidelines
· To provide a specialist voice service for children with complex voice conditions in collaboration with Children and Family Health Devon and to support, train and supervise paediatric SLT colleagues to manage non-complex voice cases
· To provide specialist intervention for individuals requiring gender affirming voice therapy and those with upper airway presentations such as chronic refractory cough, laryngeal hypersensitivity and inducible laryngeal obstruction
· To line manage and provide support and supervision for junior voice therapy colleagues
· As a senior member of the Speech and Language Therapy team to provide training, second opinions and learning opportunities to the wider SLT team
· To take a leading role in service development, quality improvement and audit for the voice therapy service
Working for our organisation
We are a small friendly team with close links to our ENT and Head & Neck Colleagues. We also have a unique pathway with colleagues within Children and Family Health Devon and are developing relationships with specialist respiratory clinicians.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To provide a highly specialist and comprehensive service of assessment, diagnosis, therapy and management to adults and children with acquired voice disorders.
· To work alongside ENT colleagues within the Joint Voice Clinic providing nasendoscopic examination of the larynx as well as diagnosis of the voice disorder and appropriacy of further SLT management or surgical management.
· To work independently in the parallel SLT led voice clinic providing the initial assessment for patients referred to ENT with voice and or throat symptoms in lieu of the ENT consultant, to include nasendoscopic evaluation, manual examination and oral examination.
· To provide a specialist voice service to the children of Devon. Providing supervision and training of other SLT’s within the paediatric community service to enable them to provide treatment for non- complex paediatric cases but retaining management of specialist cases as identified in the management of paediatric voice cases policy.
· To provide a service to patients requiring gender affirming voice treatment.
· To set up and monitor therapy treatment programmes.
· To carry out assessments and make recommendations for individuals with Voice Disorders.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- • Qualified Speech & Language Therapist
- • HCPC Registered
- • Evidence of considerable post graduate training in specific voice therapy techniques
Desirable criteria
- • Qualified to perform and interpret laryngeal nasendoscopy
- • Qualified in dysphagia management
knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Highly specialist knowledge of procedures and assessments to evaluate Voice disorders including specialist level experience of instrumental evaluation of the larynx (eg using stroboscopy)
- • Able to demonstrate a high level of competence in treating complex voice disorders in adults and children using a range of therapeutic interventions
- • Evidence of CPD and development of specialist competencies and knowledge base
- • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of leading a voice service
- • Experience of working in a Joint ENT/SLT voice clinic
- • Experience of running and leading an SLT-led voice clinic
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amanda Harris
- Job title
- Head of Speech & Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919 547361
- Additional information
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