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Bradford District Care NHS Foundation TrustLead with Purpose – Join as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and 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 managementSafeguarding and ethical best practicesA supportive team with a passion for patient-centred careStrategy and innovation for service development

Closing- 10th August 2025

Shortlisting- 11th August 2025

Interview- W/C 18th August 2025

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.

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

Benefits

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

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: anna kennedy Job title: portfolio lead for planned care services Email address: anna.kennedy@bdct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07710917063

Gemma Hoyle Gemma .hoyle@bdct.nhs.ukSeniority level

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