Speech and Language Therapist Specialist Practitioner
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 26/08/2026
- Closes
- 09/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the Jurassic Community Adult Speech and Language Therapy team. You will provide a community clinical service to patients in their homes, clinics, and community hospitals, managing a caseload collaboratively with the team. The position offers opportunities to work with individuals with complex communication and swallowing difficulties, develop specialist skills, and supervise junior staff. It is suitable for a Band 5 SLT with dysphagia experience or a Band 6 SLT seeking new challenges.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a community clinical service to patients in their own home, in clinics and in Community Hospital settings.
- Work collaboratively with other team members to manage the locality caseload.
- Work with individuals with a wide range of neurological conditions who present with complex communication and swallowing difficulties.
- Refer and attend Videofluoroscopy clinic as appropriate.
- Develop skills and knowledge of working with patients with AAC.
- Supervise band 5 therapists and work with SLT assistants.
Essential criteria
- Registered practitioner to degree level supplemented by post registration specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
- Membership of RCSLT
- Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio
- Registered with HCPC
- Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level including a minimum of six months experience working with adults with dysphagia
- Experience of specialist working
- Experience of managing change
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
- Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities.
- Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required.
- Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g. organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies.
- Ability to use own initiative within sphere of authority
- Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
- Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to practice
- Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards an service improvement
- Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model
- Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business. - Level 1/2
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Speech and Language Therapist Specialist Practitioner
The closing date is 09 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking for a career development role or an already established Speech and Language Therapist Specialist Practitioner, looking to join a forward-thinking team? The Jurassic Community Adult Speech and Language Therapy team, based at Weymouth Community Hospital has the opportunity for you.
We are advertising for a band 6 Specialist SLT or band 5/6 Developmental SLT. This role may suit you if you are:
- An experienced Band 5 speech and language therapist with a minimum of six months experience working with adults with dysphagia
- A band 6 speech and language therapist, looking to develop skills and take on challenges in a new area
The Jurassic team is part of the Dorset Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy team and covers Weymouth, Portland, Dorchester, Bridport and surrounding areas.
As a Speech and Language Therapist Specialist Practitioner you will be responsible for providing a community clinical service. The service sees patients in their own home, in clinics and in Community Hospital settings. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other team members to manage the locality caseload as needed. You will be highly motivated and forward thinkin
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