Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-9578
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Colne House
- Town
- Watford
- Salary
- £40,617 - £48,778 per annum pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.co
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and innovative Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to join the Specialist Learning Disability Service based in West Hertfordshire.
The successful candidate will work as an influential and integral member of a diverse multi-disciplinary specialist learning disability health team working across a range of settings.
You will be forward thinking and able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in the area of adult learning disabilities based on current evidence. You will autonomously undertake specialist assessments and interventions with individuals with communication difficulties and dysphagia difficulties. The person successful in their application will be an essential member of the MDT, working alongside Psychiatry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Arts Therapies, Physiotherapy and Social Care colleagues to support our service users achieve their goals.
The post offers good links with SLT colleagues throughout HPFT services. You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Senior Lead Speech and Language Therapist and peers. There is a strong ethos of Continuous Quality Improvement throughout the service and the Trust as a whole, creating possibilities for developing and extending knowledge and skills. You will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development activities.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality, comprehensive Speech and language Therapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group
To manage a caseload using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in community settings
To provide this service-to-service users, who present with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties
To undertake supervision of junior staff and students as required
To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for more information on the role requirements required for this position.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registration with HCPC
- Member of the RCSLT
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate dysphagia training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge and application of speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
- Detailed knowledge of evidence-based practice and its contribution to practice governance
- Planning and coordination of treatment packages
Desirable criteria
- Supervision skills
- Experience of working within a learning disability setting
- Experience of managing a caseload (either both dysphagia and/or communication) caseload
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential criteria
- Clear and effective communication through written, verbal and non-verbal modes
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in SLT, learning disabilities and mental health
- Understanding of team dynamics
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
- Nancy Essery
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795 882027
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