# Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/826504ee-6987-4f6f-8085-cb8150cfb0ce - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/826504ee-6987-4f6f-8085-cb8150cfb0ce.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust - **Town:** Maidstone - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (inclusive of high-cost area supplement) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-12T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-29T09:01:46.564Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Kent/Dartford/Kent_Medway_Mental_Health_NHS_Trust/Forensics_Specialist_Services_Directorate/Forensics_Specialist_Services_Directorate-v8044572 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8044572?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kmpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking an enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to work in our Low Secure Forensic Services. If you're a motivated, forward-thinking Speech and Language Therapist, this is your opportunity. We need you to lead our high-quality, person centred communication and dysphagia interventions for service users with complex forensic, learning disability and neurodiverse needs. You will play a vital role within a supportive multidisciplinary team, shaping pathways, driving improvements and providing clinical leadership to junior staff and students. If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference, committed to recovery-focussed practice and ready to contribute to innovative AHP-led developments we'd love to welcome your expertise and help you grow your specialist career with us. The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). ### Main duties of the job As a Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you will lead the delivery of specialist assessments and interventions for service users within the Low Secure Unit who present with complex speech, language, communication and swallowing needs. Patients within these services will present with a range of mental health diagnoses but may also present with comorbidities including neurodiversity, learning difficulties substance misuse or cognitive differences. You will undertake detailed formulations, identify strengths and areas of need, and develop personalised, recovery-focused treatment plans that promote engagement, independence and safety. Working collaboratively  you will provide expert clinical input to support risk management, capacity assessments and decision-making, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care aligned with national guidelines and professional standards. In addition to managing a complex caseload, you will provide clinical leadership across the service. You will actively participate in clinical meetings, audits, and quality improvement initiatives,  to shape service development in line with the Trust’s AHP strategy. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will also  deliver training, promoting effective communication environments, and ensuring robust governance of SLT practice within the team. This is a dynamic and influential post, offering the opportunity to drive positive change and improve outcomes for service users with highly specialist needs. Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. ## Job Details We are seeking an enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to work in our Low Secure Forensic Services. If you're a motivated, forward-thinking Speech and Language Therapist, this is your opportunity. We need you to lead our high-quality, person centred communication and dysphagia interventions for service users with complex forensic, learning disability and neurodiverse needs. You will play a vital role within a supportive multidisciplinary team, shaping pathways, driving improvements and providing clinical leadership to junior staff and students. If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference, committed to recovery-focussed practice and ready to contribute to innovative AHP-led developments we'd love to welcome your expertise and help you grow your specialist career with us. The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). ## Job Description As a Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you will lead the delivery of specialist assessments and interventions for service users within the Low Secure Unit who present with complex speech, language, communication and swallowing needs. Patients within these services will present with a range of mental health diagnoses but may also present with comorbidities including neurodiversity, learning difficulties substance misuse or cognitive differences. You will undertake detailed formulations, identify strengths and areas of need, and develop personalised, recovery-focused treatment plans that promote engagement, independence and safety. Working collaboratively you will provide expert clinical input to support risk management, capacity assessments and decision-making, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care aligned with national guidelines and professional standards. In addition to managing a complex caseload, you will provide clinical leadership across the service. You will actively participate in clinical meetings, audits, and quality improvement initiatives, to shape service development in line with the Trust’s AHP strategy. ## Responsibilities You will also deliver training, promoting effective communication environments, and ensuring robust governance of SLT practice within the team. This is a dynamic and influential post, offering the opportunity to drive positive change and improve outcomes for service users with highly specialist needs. Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role. We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - A range of experience in different clinical settings including mental health or neurodiversity - Experience developing and delivering training / upskilling others - Experience of clinical audit / QI / service evaluation work **Desirable** - Experience of leading service development - Experience of working in forensics or criminal justice services - Experience of providing clinical leadership ### Qualifications **Essential** - A recognised Speech and Language Therapist professional qualification - Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) - dysphagia competencies **Desirable** - Approved Practice Educator - Evidence of post graduate development through formal postgraduate courses or experience or equivalent clinical work ### Qualities and Behaviours **Essential** - Evidence of ability to work autonomously as well as in a team - Adaptable and flexible in approach ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 623.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2394) - [trust name change (pdf, 813.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2991) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 200.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10333264) ## 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.