Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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 a part-time permanent Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist post in the Adult Community SLT team in Brent. The role involves providing specialist domiciliary and outpatient assessment, management, and intervention for adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing impairments, particularly those in community care homes. The successful candidate will manage a complex neurological caseload, make clinical management decisions, and participate in service development. The team offers a supportive environment with regular supervision and professional development opportunities.
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Dysphagia competent
Desirable criteria
- Registration with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of further study e.g. postgraduate degree, short courses relating to community setting
- Management of neurological and long term conditions
- Assessment & treatment of complex clients with speech, language, communication needs and dysphagia
- Working with carers & MDT
- Writing reports and maintaining case notes
- Delivering and evaluating training
- Management of own caseload
- Applying the principals of research methodology through clinical audit
- Developing reflective clinical practice in self
- Member of a relevant CEN
- Experience of working in acute and community settings as well as in nursing homes.
- LSVT training
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff
- Knowledge of assessment tools relating the neurological/community client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions relating to the neurological/community client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy
- Ability to work in a less predictable environment and able to prioritise own workload with well-developed concentration skills.
- Good organisation skills
- Able to work as part of a team and remain calm under pressure
- Demonstration of good analytical and reflection skills
- Other
- As this is a community-based role, having a driving license is desirable to this role
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Dysphagia competent
- Registration with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of further study e.g. postgraduate degree, short courses relating to community setting
- Management of neurological and long term conditions
- Assessment & treatment of complex clients with speech, language, communication needs and dysphagia
- Working with carers & MDT
- Writing reports and maintaining case notes
- Delivering and evaluating training
- Management of own caseload
- Applying the principals of research methodology through clinical audit
- Developing reflective clinical practice in self
- Member of a relevant CEN
- Experience of working in acute and community settings as well as in nursing homes.
- LSVT training
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff
- Knowledge of assessment tools relating the neurological/community client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions relating to the neurological/community client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy
- Ability to work in a less predictable environment and able to prioritise own workload with well-developed concentration skills.
- Good organisation skills
- Able to work as part of a team and remain calm under pressure
- Demonstration of good analytical and reflection skills
- Other
- As this is a community-based role, having a driving license is desirable to this role
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Central London Community Health Trust
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
We are pleased to offer a part-time (22.5 hours per week) Band 6 permanent post within the Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) in the London Borough of Brent.
We are a dynamic and welcoming team, focused on providing high standard patient-centred care with emphasis on continuing service development and excellent links with our community multidisciplinary team and the local acute SLTs. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and innovative Speech and Language Therapist to complete our Adult SLT Team.
This is a newly established Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) post, providing specialist domiciliary and outpatient assessment, management and intervention for adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing impairments, with a particular focus on clients residing in community care homes.
You will have a rewarding experience working with patients across the area of Brent, a vibrant multicultural London Community. You will have the opportunity to engage with service development such as research, audits and QI projects, for which CLCH also offers comprehensive training and support.
In our team we emphasise a supportive team environment. As such, your clinical development will be a priority and you will receive regular su
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