Job summary
- Main area
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0821-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Porterbrook Clinic
- Town
- 75 Osborne Road, Sheffield
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 Per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 29/09/2025
Employer heading

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and flexible Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy team in Sheffield. Following retirement and subsequent re-organisation we are looking for a part time 30 hours (0.80wte) Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to work within the regional Gender Identity Clinic based in Sheffield.
The service is well respected and has excellent links with the Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Voice team together with the wider Speech and Language Therapy service in STH.
Applicants must have:
· Attained a level of experience proportionate to the competencies detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification.
· Significant post graduate experience.
· Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
· Registration with the Health Care Professions Council and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
· Experience of assessment and management of clinical voice disorders.
Main duties of the job
You will work in collaboration with trans and gender diverse people to explore voice and communication to discover how best to facilitate and support authentic voice.
As well as one to one initial assessments and follow up appointments you will support the delivery of group therapy via telehealth or in person. You will work alongside and be supported by a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist in Porterbrook Gender Identity Clinic as part of the Voice and Communication Therapy team.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professional qualification (1st degree level or equivalent)
- Qualified to work to Specialist level on clinical voice disorders
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists and Health & Care Professions Council
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-graduate experience
- Relevant experience up to or at a Band 6 level.
- Experience of working with transgender and non-binary adults.
- Experience in working with adults with clinical voice difficulties
- Experience of working with relatives and carers
- Evidence of multi-disciplinary team working
Desirable criteria
- Involvement in development and delivery of training packages
Training
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for relevant client group
- Knowledge of national policies and legislation relevant to client group, and the local implementation of these.
- Knowledge of professional and clinical guidelines relevant to the client group.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of complex dysphonia including psychogenic and neurological voice disorder
Special Skills/Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Competent in use of IT for everyday communication.
- Good time management and organisational skills.
- Good presentation skills – oral and written.
- Awareness of the principles of clinical governance, audit and required standards of record keeping.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, especially in relation to liaison and joint working.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of ability to manage specialist and complex caseload independently
- Knowledge of the NHS and understanding of the roles of other professions
Other factors
Essential criteria
- Evidence of developing negotiation skills and management of conflict.
- Commitment to equal opportunities in work and service delivery.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Adaptable to new situations and personnel.
- Flexible approach to working practices.
- Commitment to person centred planning and carer involvement in service delivery and development.
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 Forrester
- Job title
- SLT Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2712676
- Additional information
Chloe Patterson
Highly specialist SLT
Email: [email protected]
List jobs with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors