# Speech and Language Therapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Speech and Language Therapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum incl. HCAS
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment cover)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-21T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-07T10:01:25.100Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Chelsea_Westminster_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Speech_Language_Therapy/Speech_Language_Therapy-v8214398
- **Employer website:** https://www.chelwest.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is a fixed term contract to cover a 12 month secondment, within the adult Speech and Language Therapy service at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

### Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to manage a complex SLT caseload independently, providing second opinions and advice for junior staff when required. They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will be expected to work collaboratively with patients, carers, and colleagues, the voluntary sector and Social Services in regards to the planning and delivery of care.

Provision of specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment and management to adult inpatients, based on the acute wards at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached job description for the full role and responsibilities.

### 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 working within a Multidisciplinary Team
- Experience with service development and service evaluation
- Experience providing teaching and training for members of the MDT, patients, families etc.
- Experience using evidence based practice and outcome measures
- Experience providing complex specialist dysphagia assessment and management
- Experience providing complex specialist communication assessment and management

**Desirable**

- Experience with Videofluoroscopy, with evidence of the relevant competencies
- Experience with tracheostomy weaning and management, with the relevant competencies

### Trust Values

**Essential**

- Putting patients first
- Responsive to patients and staff
- Open and honest
- Unfailingly kind
- Determined to develop

### Personal qualities

**Essential**

- Awareness of professional and personal boundaries
- Able to maintain prolonged periods of concentration
- Ability to cope with stressful working situations, including aggressive patients / relatives

### Skills and knowledge

**Essential**

- Understanding of NHS policies relevant to SLT and the value of clinical governance
- Ability to work on autonomously and as part of a team
- Specialist assessment and management knowledge for adults with complex dysphagia
- Specialist assessment and management knowledge for adults with complex communication and / or voice impairment
- Ability to communicate effectively in a highly emotive clinical setting
- Ability to identify and assess clinical risk accordingly
- Highly effective written and verbal communication

### Education and qualifications

**Essential**

- Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
- Current HCPC registration
- Current RCSLT registration
- Membership of Clinical Interest Group relevant to the post
- 2 years post graduate experience relevant to the post

## Documents

- [recruitment pack (pdf, 2.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1313)
- [policy statement (pdf, 144.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=891)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 85.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=890)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 278.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10522156)
- [staff benefits and wellbeing (pdf, 177.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1256)
- [speech and language therapist (pdf, 880.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10575842)

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