# Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Early Supported Discharge > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for HCRG Care Group. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-speech-and-language-therapist-early-supported-discharge/c44a4068-0eeb-4e2d-b605-874f791f24b1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-speech-and-language-therapist-early-supported-discharge/c44a4068-0eeb-4e2d-b605-874f791f24b1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** HCRG Care Group - **Town:** Gravesend - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Salary:** £49,387 to £49,387 a year - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-17T21:02:44.737Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/E0279-26-1643?employerCode=E0279 - **Application URL:** https://careershub.hcrgcaregroup.com/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=19981&jobboard=NHS&c=vacancyposter ## Job Content ### Job summary \As a \Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist\, you will join our Early \Supported Discharge (ESD) Stroke Team based at Gravesham Community Hospital in Gravesend\. \\This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role within a specialist community stroke service, \supporting patients with communication and swallowing difficulties as they transition from hospital to home\.\\You will manage a specialist caseload of patients following stroke, delivering expert assessment, diagnosis and rehabilitation within a multidisciplinary team. This is a highly rewarding role where you will see the direct impact of your interventions, helping patients regain independence, improve quality of life and achieve meaningful goals in their own environment.\\Alongside your clinical responsibilities, you will contribute to service development, \support the growth of colleagues and rehabilitation assistants, and help shape the future of stroke rehabilitation services across North Kent\.\\\\\\Package Description\\\You will be joining a \supportive and forward-thinking community strok ### Main duties of the job About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 ### About us About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 ### Details - Date posted: 17 July 2026 - Pay scheme: Other - Salary: £49,387 to £49,387 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: HCRGCG/TP/24475/19981 - Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 0DG, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2 ## Person Specification ### General Requirements **Essential** - Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site **Desirable** - Click Apply for this job above to view the Job Description on our career site ## 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.