Speech and Language therapist

Senior Speech and Language Therapist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata

Hours: Part-time

Location: Ipswich, IP4 5PD

Job type: Contract

Posting date: 29 Sept 2026

Closing date: 29 Oct 2026

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Are you a Speech and Language therapist with experience and interest in voice disorders?

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a specialist post to primarily work with patients with clinical voice disorders. You will also support our community service, and if you have the requisite skills can support with instrumental assessment service delivery (videofluoroscopy and FEES). You will primarily be based within the ENT voice service, with the delivery of the remaining hours to be decided based on your skill set and our service need.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible clinician that is autonomous in assessment and management of voice disorders, with an underpinning of anatomy and physiology knowledge, and demonstrates excellent communication and administrative skills to support MDT working.

This post will be based at Ipswich Hospital with remote working a core part of therapeutic intervention. The voice service is part of a wider ENT service delivery model, including Head and Neck Cancer, and sits within a larger integrated SLT team that covers both acute and community service provision.

If you are not sure about applying, we would welcome contact from you to discuss what you could bring to the service and how we could help you to develop. We welcome applications from band 5 clinicians looking to develop their skills through this post.

The purpose of this post is to provide assessment and management to patients who are referred predominantly by ENT and present with clinical voice disorders. Your role will also involve providing assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders arising as a result of a range of acquired aetiologies, as a member of our integrated inpatient, outpatient and community Speech and Language therapy team. Depending on your skill set and experience, there may be an opportunity to support the delivery of the Joint Voice Clinic with ENT and our SLT-led therapeutic scoping clinics, FEES and videofluoroscopy clinics. There will be opportunities to contribute and lead on service development projects.

The post holder will be based at Ipswich Hospital, although there may be an element of homeworking using telehealth models of service delivery. Some community outreach domiciliary visits may be required, necessitating lone working and travel between places of work.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Monday 12 Oct 2026

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Are you a Speech and Language therapist with experience and interest in voice disorders?

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a specialist post to primarily work with patients with clinical voice disorders. You will also support our community service, and if you have the requisite skills can support with instrumental assessment service delivery (videofluoroscopy and FEES). You will primarily be based within the ENT voice service, with the delivery of the remaining hours to be decided based on your skill set and our service need.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and flexible clinician that is autonomous in assessment and management of voice disorders, with an underpinning of anatomy and physiology knowledge, and demonstrates excellent communication and administrative skills to support MDT working.

This post will be based at Ipswich Hospital with remote working a core part of therapeutic intervention. The voice service is part of a wider ENT service delivery model, including Head and Neck Cancer, and sits within a larger integrated SLT team that covers both acute and community service provision.

If you are not sure about applying, we would welcome contact from you to discuss what you could bring to the service and how we could help you to develop. We welcome applications from band 5 clinicians looking to develop their skills through this post

The purpose of this post is to provide assessment and management to patients who are referred predominantly by ENT and present with clinical voice disorders. Your role will also involve providing assessment and management of communication and swallowing disorders arising as a result of a range of acquired aetiologies, as a member of our integrated inpatient, outpatient and community Speech and Language therapy team. Depending on your skill set and experience, there may be an opportunity to support the delivery of the Joint Voice Clinic with ENT and our SLT-led therapeutic scoping clinics, FEES and videofluoroscopy clinics. There will be opportunities to contribute and lead on service development projects.

The post holder will be based at Ipswich Hospital, although there may be an element of homeworking using telehealth models of service delivery. Some community outreach domiciliary visits may be required, necessitating lone working and travel between places of work.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A