# Band 6 Community SLT post > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-community-slt-post/874b6704-a1c5-4f3c-af90-1032081c0012 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-6-community-slt-post/874b6704-a1c5-4f3c-af90-1032081c0012.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Clayponds Hospital or Ealing Day Treatment Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £36,943 - £54,254 Per Annum incl. HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-04T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-20T09:50:58.296Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Sterling_Place/Central_North_West_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Band_Adult_SLT_post/Community_Band_Adult_SLT_post-v8232407 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8232407?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Ealing Adult Speech and Language Therapy Service, are looking for a Band 6 Therapist, to be part of our friendly Community SLT team. We are a supportive and experienced, specialist community team of a Band 8a, B7’s, B6 roles, B5 roles and SLT Assistant’s, with a strong commitment to CPD. We offer excellent clinical and professional support and supervision, and access to relevant courses, internally and externally, to support you in developing your knowledge and skills. The posts will be located within Ealing Community Partners, in the Ealing Adult SLT service based at Clayponds Hospital or at Ealing Day Treatment Centre. ### Main duties of the job You will be managed, supervised and will work closely with SLT Assistants and the wider SLT team, including a Band 8a & 7 team leads. The successful candidates will ideally have, some knowledge, skill and experience of working with both dysphagia and communication patients as a result of Neurological disorders including stroke, progressive degenerative disorders, care of the elderly and dementia. The successful candidates will be an active member of the multi-professional team and work to ensure its continued development. Good communication, liaison and time-management skills are required to manage the caseload effectively, in addition to being forward thinking and enthusiastic. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties for patients in an inpatient setting. - To provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning, and develop and implement appropriate interventions/rehabilitation to be delivered in an inpatient setting. - To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. - To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals reflecting specialist knowledge. - To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management. - To ensure that patients and/or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and wherever possible facilitate patients with communication and/or cognitive difficulties to participate in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes. - To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to maximise the patient’s skills and reduce clinical risk. - To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies. - To adapt practice to meet individual patients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic backgrounds. - To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of patient’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. - To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of adult neurology (including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, and dementia). - To demonstrate some knowledge and use of high and low technology communication aids with a range of patients. - To manage risk when dealing with people who have swallowing difficulties, to promote choice by providing information about the risks and to contribute to moral and ethical decision making about oral and/or alternative feeding choices. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Computer literacy/IT skills and a willingness to update these **Desirable** - Car driver and access to a car for work purposes ### Experience **Essential** - Experience working with adults with acquired disorders and a significant proportion of this should be with stroke. - Relevant specialist experience post qualification in assessment and management of acquired communication/swallowing disorders of neurological aetiology - Experience within specialist area of stroke. - Involvement in multi-disciplinary working **Desirable** - Post graduate experience should include outpatient and community setting - Experience of supervising more junior staff and volunteers - Experience working with interpreters. - Experience of developing and providing specialist training to nursing home staff, carers, and other members of the MDT ### Educations/ Qualifications **Essential** - Registration with Health Professions Council as a Speech and Language Therapist - Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent - Evidence of attendance at relevant courses and membership of relevant Special Interest Groups - Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks **Desirable** - Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist. ### Knowledge, Skills and Abilities **Essential** - Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal. - Excellent organisational skills - Excellent caseload management skills, including the ability to prioritise caseload and work independently. - Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities - Knowledge of high and low technology communication aids and their use with adult neurological patients - In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to specialist patient group. - In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to communication and dysphagia in specialist patient group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits. - In depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance /audit / record keeping. - Knowledge of up-to-date advances in clinical management relevant to specialist patient group and application to own clinical practice. **Desirable** - Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to adult acquired communication, cognitive and swallowing disorders ## Documents - [cnwl values (pdf, 182.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1162) - [band 6 slt jd (pdf, 688.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10542476) - [band 6 slt jd & ps (pdf, 688.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10542457) - [cnwl staff charter (pdf, 684.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2868) - [cnwl staff networks (pdf, 320.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1160) - [cnwl reward and wellbeing handbook 2020 (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1773) - [cnwl culture scarf behaviour framework (pdf, 710.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2869) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.