Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist including Dysphagia
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1544
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chalkhill Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Wembley
- Salary
- £27.49 (inclusive of HACS)
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 30/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Highly Specialist Speech & 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
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) are looking for a Bank Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to work 2 ½ days any weekdays
To provide a highly specialist clinical speech and language therapy service, working in close collaboration with speech and language therapy colleagues, parents, carers, education staff and a range of health professionals in order to meet the communication and eating and drinking needs of children with complex special needs and their families.
To provide training and support to carers, speech and language therapists and other professionals in the highly specialist clinical area.
Be an active member of the clinical team, providing a comprehensive Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapy service.
• Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
Build up and maintain key relationships with referring services (including within the MDTs, primary and secondary care services, voluntary and third sector organisations) to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the role of the Speech & Language Therapist and the Multi-professional team.
Main duties of the job
To maintain, nurture and support working relationship with all staff. Specific responsibilities in relation to Speech & Language Therapy Service, Locality Managers and the Integrated team colleagues of all professions
Internal
• Speech and Language Therapy Team
• Occupational Therapy Team
• Physiotherapy Team
• Paediatricians
• Dietetics
• O-19 services
External
• Acute Hospitals
• Brent SENAS
• Brent inclusion teams - e.g Visual Impairment team
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life’s most important moments.
Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.'
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
- Registered member of RCSLT.
- Courses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant CEN
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical reasoning based on evidenced-based practice within paediatrics.
- Specialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
- Working collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
- Knowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
- Experience of service development
- Experience of offering clinical supervision
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of team/leadership responsibilities
- Experience of undertaking appraisal and planning CPD for less experienced staff
- Working in multi-cultural community
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques and therapeutic interventions
- Demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidence-based practice
- Child development and its application to speech and language therapy
- Understanding of safeguarding
- Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- Understanding and application of standards of record keeping and reporting
- Working knowledge of the roles of other professionals in Health, Education and Social Care involved with CYP.
- Demonstrates well developed ability to analyse and reflect upon complex information.
- Negotiation, problem solving concentration, analytical and reflection skills.
- Good awareness of IT and IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shivani Chotai
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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