# Specialist Speech and Language Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/334a2a74-185b-449a-8da8-47e5711b4b56 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-speech-and-language-therapist/334a2a74-185b-449a-8da8-47e5711b4b56.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - **Location:** Emergency/Out of Hours Dental Services - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £41,957 - £58,785 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 10 months (End Date 17/10/27) - **Employment type:** Full time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T14:10:46.814Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Watford/Central_London_Community_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Specialist_Speech_Language_Therapist/Specialist_Speech_Language_Therapist-v8358606 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8358606?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.clch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting! We are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated and supportive team on a fixed term basis until October 2027. You will work with adults in their own homes and outpatient clinics across West Hertfordshire, supporting people with a range of medical conditions and acquired communication and swallowing disorders, including voice difficulties. Working across a varied caseload will give you the opportunity to further develop your knowledge and expertise in acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders. Dysphagia competencies and experience of managing dysphagia are essential to this role. As this is a community-based role, with travel between patient homes, there is a requirement to hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). ### Main duties of the job You will manage adults with acquired communication and swallowing needs across clinics, care homes and patients’ homes in West Hertfordshire. You will book patients from the waiting list, plan follow-up appointments and reviews, attend Speech and Language Therapy team meetings and work closely with the multidisciplinary team and other professionals, including writing clinical reports. You will independently complete specialist assessments, use your clinical knowledge to make appropriate decisions and differential diagnoses, and develop evidence-based care plans covering treatment, advice, review, discharge and communication with patients, carers and colleagues. You will adapt care plans as patients’ needs and goals change and determine when individual or group therapy is most appropriate. You will also assess the need for communication equipment, including high- and low-tech aids, coordinate trials or purchase where appropriate, support patients and carers to use equipment, and support Band 5 Speech and Language Therapists. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment. ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Experience relevant to an adult caseload. - Management of dysphagia in acute, rehabilitation, community, OP settings. - Able to demonstrate the application of in depth, new and ongoing learning and experience to clinical practice. - Experience in the provision of training for others. - Well-established knowledge of assessment tools relevant to an adult client group including: Dysphagia/Dysphasia/Dysarthria/ Dyspraxia/Dysphonia/Dysfluency/Dysgraphia/ Dyslexia/Dementia. - Well-established knowledge of a range of relevant therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group (as above). - Well-established knowledge of the management of people with progressive neurological conditions. - Knowledge of the range and applications of communication aids. - Knowledge of the application and protocol for use of videofluoroscopy. - Knowledge of professional standards including record keeping. - A good understanding of the roles of other professionals in acute, rehabilitation and community settings. - A well-established knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to adults. - A good understanding of the application of research and audit systems. - Understanding of the principles of clinical governance. **Desirable** - Knowledge of the application and protocol for use of videofluoroscopy. ### Key Attributes **Essential** - A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use for business purposes is essential (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010). ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Good presentation skills in both verbal and written form. - Good organisational skills including prioritisation. - Ability to independently integrate complex information to manage individual clients. - Ability to negotiate with and influence people. - Highly developed hearing, concentration and perceptual skills. - Ability to transcribe/analyse speech phonetically. - Demonstrates an ability to be an effective team member. - High level of interpersonal communication skills including observation, listening, empathy and sensitivity. - Ability to manage the emotional consequences of working with patients with distressing conditions. - Ability to reflect on, analyse and develop own performance. - Ability to self-monitor and seek support/advice as appropriate. - Flexible and adaptable approach to work clinically, professionally and within the organisation. ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - An appropriate qualification to practise as a Speech and Language Therapist. - Health and Care Professions Council licence to practise. - Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. - Dysphagia-trained to an advanced level. - Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses and/or relevant experience up to Master’s degree equivalent. - Membership/attendance at relevant Special Interest Groups ## Documents - [clch trust values (pdf, 893.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10686957) - [functional requirements (pdf, 439.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10686956) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10713960) ## 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.