Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This full-time Band 6 position is for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Community Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service in Wandsworth. The role involves providing high-quality care to adults in a community setting, focusing on assessment, treatment, and support for swallowing difficulties and communication impairments. You will manage a complex caseload, work independently with support, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and other services.
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech-Language Therapy
- Health & Care Professions Council Registration
Desirable criteria
- Relevant post graduate qualifications
- Membership of the Royal College of Speech-Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Membership of Clinical Excellence Network (CEN) groups
- Courses and experience relevant to the patient group
- Experience of providing detailed assessment and intervention for patients with dysphagia and communication impairments
- Experience of working with adults with a variety of long-term conditions
- Use of reflective practice and supervising others
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working in an adult community setting and/or acute settings
- Experience of dealing with emotionally challenging situations in a professional and compassionate manner
- Experience of working in palliative and end of life care.
- Training and presenting to others
- Undertaken clinical audit
- Research experience
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Use of outcome measures
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of long-term conditions and neurological conditions including clients with multiple pathologies
- Specialist skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties in the context of complex long-term conditions
- Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate effective clinical reasoning skills
- Knowledge and experience of working within a wider multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical guidelines across a variety of long-term conditions e.g. dementia, Parkinson's Disease
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and its application to clinical practice
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- Advanced clinical note writing and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Evidence of counselling skills and ability to manage difficult conversations
- Basic IT/ word processing skills
- EMIS clinical system experience
- Key Attributes
- Personally, and professionally responsible
- Ability to self-motivate
- Ability to be flexible, adaptable and reliable
- Ability to work as a team member
- Ability to work under pressure
- Degree in Speech-Language Therapy
- Health & Care Professions Council Registration
- Relevant post graduate qualifications
- Membership of the Royal College of Speech-Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Membership of Clinical Excellence Network (CEN) groups
- Courses and experience relevant to the patient group
- Experience of providing detailed assessment and intervention for patients with dysphagia and communication impairments
- Experience of working with adults with a variety of long-term conditions
- Use of reflective practice and supervising others
- Experience of service development
- Experience of working in an adult community setting and/or acute settings
- Experience of dealing with emotionally challenging situations in a professional and compassionate manner
- Experience of working in palliative and end of life care.
- Training and presenting to others
- Undertaken clinical audit
- Research experience
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Use of outcome measures
- Specialist knowledge and understanding of long-term conditions and neurological conditions including clients with multiple pathologies
- Specialist skills in the assessment and treatment of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties in the context of complex long-term conditions
- Ability to problem solve, prioritise and demonstrate effective clinical reasoning skills
- Knowledge and experience of working within a wider multi-disciplinary team
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical guidelines across a variety of long-term conditions e.g. dementia, Parkinson's Disease
- Knowledge and understanding of clinical governance and its application to clinical practice
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- Advanced clinical note writing and report writing skills, in both verbal and written format
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Evidence of counselling skills and abil
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 10d
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Central London Community Health Trust
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting to a full-time Band 6 position within our Community Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service in Wandsworth. We welcome applications from qualified Speech and Language Therapists who are committed to delivering high-quality care and are interested in working in a community setting.
Our dedicated and supportive team sits within the Community Adult Health Services provided by Wandsworth CLCH Trust. We are a community-based therapy team providing care to the residents of Wandsworth within their own homes, care homes or day centres.
In this role, you will work with a general adult caseload, carrying out assessment, treatment, and support to those experiencing swallowing difficulties and communication impairments. You will collaborate closely with our community colleagues across multidisciplinary teams, primary and secondary care services, voluntary and third sector organisations.
Main duties of the job
Key duties within this role include:
o Take an active role within the clinical team, contributing to the delivery of a comprehensive, specialist Speech and Language Therapy service.o Provide skilled dysphagia and communication assessments and treatments to the general adult community population of Wandsworth.o To be pr
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