Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Central London Community Health Trust is 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.

The role involves managing 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.

Responsibilities include:

• Independently completing specialist assessments
• Developing evidence-based care plans covering treatment, advice, review, discharge, and communication with patients, carers, and colleagues
• Adapting care plans as patients' needs and goals change
• Determining when individual or group therapy is most appropriate
• Assessing the need for communication equipment and supporting patients and carers to use it
• Supporting Band 5 Speech and Language Therapists

Requirements:

• 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
• Experience relevant to an adult caseload
• Management of dysphagia in acute, rehabilitation, community, OP settings

We offer a competitive employment package, including a salary of £41,957 to £58,785 a year.