Team Leader - Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy (SLT)

Overview

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Team Leader - Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy (SLT)

The closing date is 21 September 2025

Lead with Purpose - Join as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Team Leader

Are you a seasoned Speech and Language Therapist ready to step into a strategic leadership role?

We're looking for someone enthusiastic, skilled, and visionary to lead our Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Team and drive forward innovation in service delivery.

Permanent Position 37.5 hours per week This role offers a unique opportunity to blend hands-on therapy work with operational leadership in a high-impact community setting. Your expertise will guide a talented team across communication and dysphagia pathways, and you'll oversee key areas like Voice Therapy and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).

What You'll Be Leading:

• Clinical excellence and complex case management
• Safeguarding and ethical best practices
• A supportive team with a passion for patient-centred care
• Strategy and innovation for service development

Closing - 21st September 2025

Shortlisting - 22nd September 2025

Interview - W/C 29th September 2025

Main duties of the job

To provide leadership and operational (inc. line) management to members of the adult community speech and language therapy team within Adult Community Services, Bradford District Care Foundation Trust.

To provide clinical expertise to teams including related to practice, safeguarding and provide support and guidance on complex case management.

To guide and support staff to make sound clinical decisions supporting the delivery of high-quality services.

To work in conjunction with the Leadership Team to implement new service models.

To actively engage with key partners and stakeholders to facilitate effective integrated working across the district.

To lead on defined pieces of work within the service to address key priority areas with the aim of maximising the impact of service delivery on positive outcomes.

To demonstrate the vision and values of the organisation while ensuring the quality and safety of services.

To ensure services are delivered within the available resource envelope and that the need for any additional resource is explained and escalated in accordance with Trust procedures.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 3500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.

Job responsibilities

Job Overview Continued-

The Role Breakdown: You'll spend roughly 30% of your time in clinical practice, keeping your skills fresh and your patient impact direct. The remainder focuses on team leadership, service coordination, and operational management.

Why Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust? - Flexible working tailored to your lifestyle

- Holistic support for your health and wellbeing

- Outstanding opportunities for leadership development

- A values-driven environment with real community impact

This is more than a clinical role-it's a chance to shape the future of care. If you're ready to lead with compassion and drive innovation, we'd love to hear from you

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.

Right to Work in the UK

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.

Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period.

As a condition of continuous employment, it essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Current HCPC Registration
• Evidence of leadership/management roles within a SALT service
• Evidence of further formal management, teaching and/or leadership qualification

Experience

• Experience of improving and changing professional practice
• Experience of managing or leadership within teams

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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