Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 818-CYP422
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at LCHS.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our teams – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:
· Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
· Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
· Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the LCHG team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients. We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
REMEMBER - Please ensure you read all information prior to applying for any job roles. Please note any CV's or covering letters received via email will not be accepted without an online application being completed. Any applications via agency will also not be accepted.
Job overview
Are you passionate about providing a high-quality service to stroke patients? Are you an ambitious individual who relishes a challenge? Lincolnshire’s Stroke Service is a dynamic, continuously developing service.
As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Lincolnshire Stroke Service, you will provide high quality stroke rehabilitation to patients on the hyper acute and acute stroke unit at Lincoln County Hospital. If you are a team player with a special interest in the area of stroke, look no further, we are looking to recruit to this post. You would be supported and mentored by your SLT band 7 and band 6 colleagues. The service has access to videofluoroscopy and FEES therefore you would be eligible for future instrumental training opportunities.
Main duties of the job
You will deliver high quality patient centred care and rehabilitation to people who have recently experienced a stroke. You will assess and manage communication and swallowing impairments, devise therapy care plans suitable for assistants and participate in service development.
You will work within a multidisciplinary team (MDT) of specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Nurses and Medics. Experience of MDT, working with stroke and skills in dysphagia (including management of eating and drinking with acknowledged risk) are a key aspect of this role.
You will participate in the collection of Speech and Language Therapy data for SSNAP (Stroke Sentinel National Audit Programme).
Weekend working is part of the service therefore you will need to be flexible to accommodate this according to service demand.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide assessment, diagnosis and specialist, evidence based intervention to adults who have had a stroke referred for speech and language therapy, including providing self-care and support information, to patients, carers, and other professionals.
To manage a caseload of adults who are in the hyper acute and acute phases following stroke.
To supervise and monitor the implementation of specialist treatment programmes delivered by Band 5 SLTs and SLTAs. To allocate tasks appropriately to them while retaining overall responsibility for the designated caseload
To provide clinical support to SLTs and SLTAs.
Base: Lincoln County Hospital - Stroke Unit
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification attached to the advert in full before applying. This post is ACUTE only.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Speech and Language Therapy degree
- HCPC registration
- Registered member of RCSLT
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development e.g. post grad dysphagia training
Desirable criteria
- Post reg qualifications related to stroke
- Clinical educator training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of having worked as a speech and language therapist for adults. Having an in depth knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, treatment and case load management within a broad range of clinical areas and experience of working with more complex cases or those within a specialist area of interest.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of stroke
- Experience of acute and community working
- MDT experience
- Experience of supervising therapy assistants
- Knowledge and use of AAC
Knowledge/skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of specialist area- assessment and treatment tools.
- Effective communicator
- Organised and able to prioritise
- Able to work well within a team
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of safeguarding
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Thomas
- Job title
- Professional Advisor SLT - Acute Stroke
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07583680529
- Additional information
Laura Thomas 07583680529
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