Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 326-7128587-RB
- Employer
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Redhill
- Salary
- £27,688 - £31,685 per annum plus high cost allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist SLT - Voice (Hybrid)
NHS AfC: Band 7
At our Trust, we strive to be the best place to work and receive care. We are dedicated to supporting you in your current role while helping you grow and develop your career. With us, you’ll benefit from excellent training opportunities, flexibility, a strong sense of community, and a range of staff benefits designed to help you thrive.
Benefits of working with us
- Training & Development – Access to excellent education, including preceptorship and CPD, with up to £1,000 individual CPD funding available for nurses, midwives, and AHPs.
- Fantastic Location – Enjoy beautiful countryside, historic towns, and vibrant city life nearby. With good schools, nature reserves, and cultural attractions, plus easy access to London and Brighton, there’s something for everyone.
- Generous Leave – A minimum of 35 days’ leave (including bank holidays) increasing with length of service to 41 days.
- NHS Pension Scheme – Secure your future with one of the best pension schemes available.
- Exclusive Discounts – Access a huge range of NHS discounts on holidays, tech, dining, retail, and more.
- On-Site Nursery – Available to staff at a discounted rate (current waitlist until March 2025).
- Convenient Parking – Discounted on-site staff parking, free EV parking, and EV charging at 25p/kWh (up to 22kW).
- On-Site Facilities – Includes Boots and WHSmith, an InPost locker, and restaurant facilities with staff discounts.
- Learning Resources – Full educational library services for professional development.
- Excellent Transport Links – Easy access via rail and bus routes.
- Cycle-Friendly – Secure, lockable cycle storage available on-site.
- Salary sacrifice car scheme.
About us
We are a leading local employer with a diverse workforce of approximately 6,000 staff, delivering healthcare services to a growing population of around 780,000.
Our Trust provides emergency and non-emergency care across East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, serving key towns including Crawley, Horsham, Reigate, and Redhill. Our main site, East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, offers a full range of acute and complex services and is the nearest trauma unit to Gatwick Airport.
We also provide outpatient, diagnostic, and planned services at several sites, including The Earlswood Centre, Caterham Dene Hospital, Oxted Health Centre, Crawley Hospital, and Horsham Hospital.
As an inclusive employer, we are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We offer a range of staff benefits, including flexible working, staff engagement networks, and well-being support to ensure a positive working environment.
The Trust is committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of benefits including, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff well being.
Job overview
We are committed to offering flexible working opportunities, including hybrid working arrangements, to support our staff's wellbeing and offer improved work-life balance. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement, allowing for a blend of remote clinics from home as well as on-site from East Surrey Hospital. The Joint Voice Clinic runs every 2 weeks on-site at Crawley Hospital.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Voice Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the supportive, close-knit Speech and Language Therapy team at East Surrey Hospital covering the voice outpatient service. The service largely covers adult voice patients, with the opportunities to develop skills in paediatrics voice and manage a small paediatric voice caseload. You will join a team who are committed to delivering high quality care with positive outcomes to patients that is in line with the Trust values of Compassion, Dignity & Respect, Safety and Quality. The is demonstrated by the results from the most recent staff survey in which the team scored about the Trust average on the overwhelming majority of questions and where 100% of respondents agreed that their role makes a difference to patients, there are opportunities to improve knowledge and skills and they receive support from their immediate manager.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will have experience working at an advanced level in the assessment, differential diagnosis and management voice disorders. You will be able to demonstrate highly developed skills in complex dysphonia from a range of causes including organic, functional or oncological. There are also the opportunities to participate, and develop skills in, the outpatient dysphagia caseload, including instrumental swallowing assessment, if this is an area of interest.
You will have the opportunity to work closely with the ENT department, and participate in the joint running of the Joint Voice Clinic alongside ENT. You will also have the opportunity to improve and develop the voice service. You will provide clinical support and supervision to the wider Speech and Language Therapy team, as well as Speech and Language Therapy students.
Working for our organisation
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
- Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
- National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
- We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are committed to continuing professional development and evidence-based practice, offering regular in-service training and both peer group and 1:1 support. You will have the opportunity to participate in a well-established voice peer support network across Surrey and Sussex localities. SASH has an extensive range of training and development opportunities for staff internally and the therapies department is fortunate to have a practice development therapist who can support with learning needs. Surrey and Sussex Healthcare Trust has also recently launched the ‘Primrose Awards’ which recognises AHPs across the trust who go above and beyond to provide patients and families with excellent clinical care.
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
criteria
Essential criteria
- Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
- A complete and accurate application
- Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
- Evidence of essential experience for role
- Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
- Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
- Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours
- Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification
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
- Laura Budd
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01737768511
- Additional information
x6127
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