# Children's Speech and Language Therapist Band 5 > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-speech-and-language-therapist-band-5/982ba9c4-2896-4d13-98ad-93f42f57b4ad - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-speech-and-language-therapist-band-5/982ba9c4-2896-4d13-98ad-93f42f57b4ad.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust - **Location:** Beech House (Trust Headquarters) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 18 months (until March 2028) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T08:20:44.934Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire/Lincolnshire_Community_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8307382 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8307382?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview As a result of additional funding with our Family Hubs project, an exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 5 Children’s Speech and Language Therapists to join our Children’s Therapy team in Lincolnshire. We are passionate about delivering high quality, evidence-based care. Partnership working is key to our work and we strongly believe that empowering parents/carers and professionals to support children's speech, language and communication needs is invaluable in effecting change. As a team, we would describe ourselves as; caring, supportive, friendly, dedicated and innovative. We are a values-based employer and firmly believe that employing the right person to join our team is paramount and once in the team, we can foster and nurture your clinical skills and knowledge through a range of peer support, CPD and shadowing/training opportunities. Both posts involve working with children aged 0-19 with a wide variety of speech, language and communication difficulties in Family Hubs and schools. ### Main duties of the job Within these roles, you will have opportunities to; assess and diagnose children with speech/language/communication needs, plan and deliver therapy, empower parents/carers and professionals to support children with SLCN. You can also expect to receive weekly dedicated CPD time alongside the rest of the speech and language therapy team. We are a dynamic group and value everyone's thoughts, ideas and opinions, we celebrate individual's achievements and ideas around service delivery and design. Compassionate leadership is a core value of LCHS and our team and we are looking for individuals who are; compassionate, caring, open, honest, passionate, resilient and resourceful. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for details for more details and responsibilities of these posts. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Relevant pre-qualification experience at under/post-graduate level ### Experience **Essential** - Good communication skills - Ability to work independently and as part of a team **Desirable** - Knowledge of the roles of other relevant professionals - Skills in the use of AAC including Makaton ### Qualifications **Essential** - Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree or equivalent qualification - Has or has applied for HCPC registration - Registered member of RCSLT **Desirable** - Successful completion of relevant professional short courses ## Documents - [ceo welcome letter (pdf, 83.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2885) - [job description & person specifications (pdf, 227.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10627322) - [acceptable use of ai in personal statements (pdf, 95.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2954) ## 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.