# Specialist Senior Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-senior-speech-and-language-therapist/9f55f4b3-01e1-4884-ac32-381efce66e31 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-senior-speech-and-language-therapist/9f55f4b3-01e1-4884-ac32-381efce66e31.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Preston - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-22T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-08T09:03:15.835Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8139543 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8139543?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will support the provision of the Autism Team to autistic individuals and complex healthcare needs across Lancashire and South Cumbria.  Your role will be to ensure that the person’s communication needs are assessed and considered.  You will be a registered Speech and Language Therapist who will undertake appropriately delegated work to support the care and treatment of autistic adults within the community and inpatient settings.  You will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team and will work with the team to develop and deliver person centred care plans with the emphasis on preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. Where hospital admission is deemed appropriate, you shall support the inpatient team by providing intervention support regarding communication.   You will 30 hours between the hours of 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Some flexibility is required to meet the needs of the team and the wider network. The specific hours are open to discussion however you will be require to work the same days at the team core meetings, currently these are a Tuesday and Thursday but may change. The post holder shall support the delivery of the Specialist Autism Service team model through the provision of routine speech and language therapy assessment and interventions in order to maintain, restore or create a match beneficial to the individual between the abilities of the person, and the demands of the environment/ communication culture around them. ### Main duties of the job An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Speech and language therapist to join the Specialist Autism Team, a unique and continuously developing service which works closely with secondary mental health care services to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions for autistic individuals. This role is to work within the team supporting the outreach and inpatient pathways with expert knowledge and neuroaffective practice. You will be required to support the team with the whole team tasks, such as duty and assessments as well as delivering your own specialist interventions. Therefore this post is a fantastic opportunity for a creative and innovative practitioner with a passion for delivering person-centred care, which is driven by the individuals whom we support. The Specialist Autism Team adopts a multidisciplinary team approach to working which supports the evolutionary scope of the service. The MDT is made up of Occupational Therapists, Nurses (RMN & RLD), Speech and Language Therapists, Social Workers , Therapy Assistants & Clinical Psychologists. Through such an approach we are continually learning, developing and findings different ways of working in order to meet the needs and wishes of the individuals we work with. For this reason we have regular team development sessions and each team member plays a vital role in sharing knowledge and information. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please review the attached job description and person specification. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Ability to support autistic people on an individual and group basis - Knowledge of evidence-based practice - Knowledge of contemporary autism policy ### Experience **Essential** - Previous experience pre or post qualification in learning disability, autism or mental health setting - Awareness of a range of SLT assessments and interventions - Broad range of under graduate practice placement experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - Bsc/ Msc in Speech and Language Therapy - Documented evidence of continuing professional development - Our vision: high quality care, in the right place, at the right time, every time. ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 392.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10438049) - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) ## 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.