Job summary
- Main area
- SALT
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1453
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 2 Bristol Avenue
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £26.30 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
JOB PURPOSE
Barnet Integrated Learning Disabilities Team aims to provide a specialist Health and Social Service for Adults with Learning Disability who live in/or originate from the borough.
To provide a Speech and Language Therapy Service to adults with learning disabilities residing in Barnet.
The post holder provides highly specialist assessment, treatment and diagnosis to Adults with a Learning Disability referred to the multi-agency Adult Learning Disability Team in Barnet acting as a specialist resource to other medical, nursing, education and therapy staff and providing second opinions in this specialist clinical area.
The post holder will be required to use highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of adults with a learning disability with complex communication difficulties who may also have challenging needs and/or eating and swallowing difficulties.
The post holder will lead the speech and language therapy team, being responsible for ensuring governance of the service, staff management/development and achieving service delivery in line with the service specification.
Main duties of the job
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To develop and provide a Speech and Language Therapy Service consisting of assessment, diagnosis and treatment to adults with a learning disability with complex communication difficulties, challenging needs and/or eating and swallowing difficulties
To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness
To analyse and transcribe all aspects of client speech and language at the level of phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, prosody and pragmatics as necessary
To employ manual dexterity in the manipulation and stimulation of the orofacial process
To carry out highly specialised physical examination of the orofacial process, including deglutition (swallowing)
To simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Appropriate Speech & Language Therapy qualification and License to Practice from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Evidence of registration with the Health & Care Professionals Council
- Completed RCSLT accredited post graduate dysphagia qualification/ RCSLT dysphagia competencies framework
- Evidence of competence in managing complex dysphagic patients with a learning disability, including those requiring enteral feeding
Desirable criteria
- Post registration qualification in leadership/management
- Post registration training and qualifications in relevant areas to the post
- Positive Behaviour Support trained
- Makaton Regional Tutor
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration clinical experience in learning disabilities and additional needs
- Evidence of high level clinical skill and knowledge of learning disability with communication and / or swallowing difficulties
- Experience of supporting AAC-users who are communicating with high-tech communication devices e.g. Ipad eye gaze
- Experience of supporting AAC users, who use light-tech communication devices, such as symbols, photos, objects etc
- Experience of working in a community setting
- Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of ability to utilise evidence based practice
- Experience in providing training to a variety of different audiences with high level presentation skills
- Appropriate postgraduate experience of working with a wide range of adults with a learning disability with communication and / or swallowing difficulties
- Experience of staff and student management and supervision
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service development work
- Experience of developing clinical care pathways
- Experience of undertaking research and/or clinical audit
- Evidence of developing innovative practice and of being proactive in management change
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of learning disabilities in adults and associated physical, cognitive and social and behavioural conditions and their management.
- Good working knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for adults with a learning disability with speech, language communication and / or eating / swallowing difficulties
- Demonstrated skills in the use of AAC e.g. Talking Mats, Makaton (keyword signing), symbol and photo-based resources
- Holistic view of communication difficulties in context of adult Learning disability
- Able to work well in a team setting and utilise a client centred, Goal setting approach to rehabilitation, in partnership with clients and carers
- Demonstrated ability to prioritise workload and work on own initiative.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to assess and train clients and carers in the use of high tech and light tech communication aids
- Display an understanding of the current NHS and learning disabilities agenda
- Knowledge of the Pan-London guidelines for safeguarding
- Knowledge of public/service user involvement and its role in relation to the promotion of quality and the development of user-led services.
- Postgraduate research in a relevant area.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Gabriel Turay
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07720212441
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