Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Community
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 30
- Posted
- 10/08/2026
- Closes
- 01/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join a friendly and supportive Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy Team. The role involves managing a varied caseload of community patients with complex speech, language, communication, and swallowing difficulties. The successful candidate will be responsible for triaging referrals, providing highly specialised treatment programmes, and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This part-time position is based in South Devon, offering access to beautiful beaches and moors.
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent in speech and language therapy
- HCPC Registration
- RCSLT Registration
- Post-graduate qualification in dysphagia management or sign off of all dysphagia competencies at foundation level
- Evidence of on-going education and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Network
- Advanced Clinical Educator
- Knowledge and Experience
- Specialist knowledge of aphasia and dysarthria assessment, diagnosis and management
- Experience of the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with cognitive-communication disorder
- Experience of the assessment and management of clients with progressive neurological conditions
- Demonstrate an understanding of multi disciplinary team working and individual roles
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate highly complex information to meet a range of levels of in understanding of clients and carers
- Ability to negotiate and explain complex case related information about speech & language development and disorders to a range of audiences
- Independent clinical management of complex caseload with access to regular support from senior staff
- able to undertake and adapt wide range of formal and informal assessments to meet patient need based on extended clinical experience beyond graduate level
- able to identify, collect, analyse, and interpret complex case related information
- able to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of assimilated evidence from assessments - some of which may be conflicting
- commitment to evidence based practice
- able to recognise own clinical competencies and the need for onward referral for more specialist advice
- Ability to reflect on practice to identify own strengths and development needs
- Able to demonstrate effective team working
- Highly developed IT skills to support use of high-tech communication aids
- Recent post graduate experience in adult neurological rehabilitation
- Experience in applying research to practice
- Leadership qualities
- Innovative
- able to implement and adapt specialised treatment programmes from a range of options based on extended clinical experience
- Knowledge and experience of clinical governance
- Additional experience in other fields of adult SLT
- Experience managing tracheotomised clients
- Experience of working with an adult neuro caseload in a community setting
- Supervision of SLT assistants and less experienced therapists
- Experience of waiting list management
- Experience of working with staff from other agencies
- Experienced clinical educator of students
- Experience of audit projects
- Experience of teaching
- Specific Skills
- Able to maintain sensitivity at all times to patients, carers and families, especially when imparting distressing information about the nature and implications of profound, long-term communication and swallowing disorders
- Able to recognise conflict between patients and their carers/relatives and facilitate resolution
- Qualifications and training
- Degree or equivalent in speech and language therapy
- HCPC Registration
- RCSLT Registration
- Post-graduate qualification in dysphagia management or sign off of all dysphagia competencies at foundation level
- Evidence of on-going education and professional development
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Network
- Advanced Clinical Educator
- Knowledge and Experience
- Specialist knowledge of aphasia and dysarthria assessment, diagnosis and management
- Experience of the assessment, diagnosis and management of clients with cognitive-communication disorder
- Experience of the assessment and management of clients with progressive neurological conditions
- Demonstrate an understanding of multi disciplinary team working and individual roles
- Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, and ability to communicate highly complex information to meet a range of levels of in understanding of clients and carers
- Ability to negotiate and explain complex case related information about speech & language development and disorders to a range of audiences
- Independent clinical management of complex caseload with access to regular support from senior staff
- able to undertake and adapt wide range of formal a
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Community
The closing date is 01 September 2026
Job summary
The Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy Team have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced band 6 Therapist to join our friendly and supportive team in a permanent position, based in beautiful South Devon, with easy access to beautiful beaches and moors. The position is part-time, 30 hours/wk.
We are an innovative and motivated team within a supportive and collaborative environment that offers:
- An opportunity to work with a varied caseload, including Parkinson's Disease, dementia, stroke and MND.
- Access to instrumental swallowing assessment - in particular our well-developed Fees service.
- 1:1 regular management supervision.
- Access to clinical supervision 1:1 and in peer groups.
- Joint working and second opinions with our clinical specialists.
- Regular opportunities for CPD
- A car owner/driver and current driving licence is essential or full access to a car for work purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and 2005).
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for triaging referrals to the Speech and Language Therapy Community Adult service alongside SLT colleagues
To independently manage a caseload of community patients with highly complex
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