# Children's Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sirona care & health CIC. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-speech-and-language-therapist/80bec507-78d0-4d23-8fc4-618ad4cb2207 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/childrens-speech-and-language-therapist/80bec507-78d0-4d23-8fc4-618ad4cb2207.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Sirona care & health CIC - **Location:** Osprey Court - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time, Flexible working, 22.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T06:00:10.724Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/Bristol/Sirona_care_health_CIC/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8192114 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8192114?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://sirona-cic.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a compassionate Speech and Language Therapist looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Join our friendly, supportive, and highly experienced multidisciplinary team as a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in autism and neurodevelopmental assessment. Working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality autism assessments and supporting children, young people, and their families throughout their journey. You'll collaborate closely with a range of professionals, contributing your specialist communication expertise to ensure the best possible outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a specialist caseload independently while undertaking a varied and rewarding role. You will use your clinical knowledge and experience to assess, advise, and support children and young people with complex needs, providing expert guidance to families, carers, and partner agencies. We are committed to helping our staff thrive. As part of our team, you'll benefit from regular clinical supervision, excellent continuing professional development opportunities, and a supportive leadership structure that encourages growth and innovation. ### Main duties of the job To carry out social communication observations and assessments in a clinic, educational settings or home setting To undertake ADOS assessments (if/when trained) for children and young people up to the age of 18 years (early years and school age) To carry out assessment of children with a complex social communication presentations as part of a multi professional team providing specialist clinical advice. To write contributions to diagnostic multidisciplinary reports and EHCP reports To carry out formal language assessments and interpret these results To take the lead where appropriate in feeding back assessment and diagnostic results to parents and young people To support other Speech and Language therapists and other professionals including Specialist Nurses, Paediatric Registrars, Early Years Practitioners and Psychology Assistants working as part of the ASD assessment team ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position. If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted. ### 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 ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Degree or equivalent in Speech & Language Therapy - Registered with HCPC **Desirable** - ADOS training - Post graduate training appropriate to the field ### Skills, Experience and Knowledge **Essential** - Experience of carrying out formal language assessment with a wide age range - Ability to cover a wide patch if required - Experience of working with Children and Young People as a SALT - Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner e.g., caseload management, prioritising cases, effective organisation and time management skills - Experience of working with Neurodivergent children and young people **Desirable** - Have experience of Autism assessment - Knowledge of Autism and differential diagnosis ## Documents - [employees benefits (pdf, 4.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2102) - [application guidance (pdf, 352.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2466) - [band 6 slt job description (pdf, 408.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10496851) ## 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.