Speech & Language Therapy Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant to join an expanding inpatient mental health SLT team in Sheffield. The role involves supporting Speech and Language Therapists in delivering interventions to service users with swallowing and communication difficulties on inpatient wards, including direct work with service users and developing accessible resources. The successful candidate will work across various adult wards and nursing homes, receiving on-the-job training. A genuine interest in the client group, willingness to learn, and adaptability are highly valued.
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills including good command of written english
- Good organisational and time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks
- Knowledge of the role of a Speech and Language Therapist
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of communication assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties
- Training and qualifications
- Relevant foundation degree or equivalent level 5 qualification; plus A levels and GCSEs or equivalent(s)
- Successful completion of relevant short course, including signing, intensive interaction, dysphagia awareness
- Experience of working in a health care or educational setting
- Experience of working with adults with communication difficulties.
- Experience of interacting with adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health difficulties
- Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent communication skills including good command of written english
- Good organisational and time management skills and ability to prioritise tasks
- Knowledge of the role of a Speech and Language Therapist
- Knowledge of communication assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for adults with learning disabilities and mental health difficulties
- Training and qualifications
- Relevant foundation degree or equivalent level 5 qualification; plus A levels and GCSEs or equivalent(s)
- Successful completion of relevant short course, including signing, intensive interaction, dysphagia awareness
- Experience of working in a health care or educational setting
- Experience of working with adults with communication difficulties.
- Experience of interacting with adults with learning disabilities, autism and mental health difficulties
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Speech & Language Therapy Assistant
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen in the inpatient mental health Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team in Sheffield. We are delighted to be expanding our small team to include an assistant post.
SLTs working in the mental health team help service users on inpatient wards to manage swallowing difficulties (dysphagia) and communication needs. We support people to understand and express themselves, so they can meaningfully participate in treatment decisions and therapeutic activities on the wards. We support staff training in dysphagia awareness and communication adaptations. As an SLT assistant, you will be supporting our SLTs to deliver a range of interventions which will include directly working with service users and indirect interventions such as developing accessible resources. On the job training will be provided to ensure you are appropriately skilled to deliver interventions within the remit of the role.
The successful candidate will work across all working-age adult wards, including a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), as well as older adult wards and 2 nursing homes. Wards are located over 3 sites (Michael Carlisle Centre, Longley Centre and Grenoside Grange); nursing homes are situated in Chapeltow
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