Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 24/08/2026
- Closes
- 07/09/2026
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 qualified and experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join mental health services for a 12-month fixed-term period covering maternity leave. The role involves working within multi-disciplinary teams across various inpatient sites, providing highly specialised speech, language, communication, and dysphagia interventions to adults with mental health conditions. The successful candidate will contribute to service development, lead training, and actively participate in ward objectives, while benefiting from a supportive trust-wide SLT team and professional leadership.
Essential criteria
- Degree or Masters Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Current professional registration with HCPC as Speech and Language Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
- Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise (Mental Health, autism)
- In depth knowledge relevant to the post including dysphagia
- Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
- In-depth understanding of relevant current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents.
- Treatment of a broad range of speech, language and communication, and dysphagia conditions relating to clinical speciality
- Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
- Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
- Degree or Masters Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Current professional registration with HCPC as Speech and Language Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
- Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise (Mental Health, autism)
- In depth knowledge relevant to the post including dysphagia
- Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
- In-depth understanding of relevant current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents.
- Treatment of a broad range of speech, language and communication, and dysphagia conditions relating to clinical speciality
- Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
- Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 07 September 2026
Job summary
We have a new and exciting opportunity for a qualified speech and language therapist to join our mental health services in order to cover a period of maternity leave.We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic speech and language therapist to work as part of the wards multi-disciplinary teams and join our established trust wide mental health SLT team. We are looking for highly motivated and creative individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
We are part of a wider network of SLTs based throughout LSCFT who form a virtual team of experienced and supportive therapists. We have a sound professional leadership structure through which we offer: Clinical and professional supervision, specialist support by experienced senior staff, continuing professional development and membership of both a Trust wide professional forum and our Mental Health SLT clinical excellence network.
This role will give the successful applicant opportunities to work within specialist inpatient services to support adults with mental health conditions. We work with adults with communication and/ or swallowing difficulties, we use evidenced based pathways to support standardised best practice, covering the needs of this client
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