Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-7874593
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Willesden Centre for Health and Care
- Town
- Brent
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Highly 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
We’re looking for a confident, forward-thinking SLT to join our Adult Community team in Brent as a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. This is a permanent post offering a real opportunity to lead and shape a supportive, dynamic service. Strong B6 candidates will also be considered for acting-up.
Based in a vibrant, diverse borough, the role covers domiciliary, outpatient care and support in the inpatient rehabilitation units at Willesden Centre. You'll take on clinical leadership, support junior staff, and drive service development alongside day-to-day clinical work. We’ll support you with regular supervision, leadership development, and CPD opportunities.
For more details, see the Job Description and Person Specification.
Informal enquiries: Alexia Petrova – [email protected]
Main duties of the job
This leadership post sits within the Brent Adult Community SLT and Inpatient Rehabilitation teams and offers the chance to make a real impact.
You’ll co-lead a team of SLTs delivering high-quality outpatient, domiciliary and inpatient care across a diverse caseload, with many clients speaking English as an additional language.
You’ll manage your own complex caseload, provide second opinions, and deliver highly specialist input in communication and dysphagia, with access to VFS/FEES where needed. You will also support the SLTs working on the rehabilitation wards with supervision and with complex patient assessments and interventions.
As a key senior clinician, you’ll co-lead on service development, governance, and QI projects, ensuring our offer is responsive, evidence-based, and culturally inclusive. Alongside the other B7 SLT, you’ll collaborate with local health and social care teams to deliver joint care plans and provide specialist training across sectors. Your role includes supervising staff, leading on complex cases, and supporting the team’s development through regular supervision and appraisal. You'll be involved in audit, research, and innovation, with full support for CPD. This is an ideal role for someone ready to take the next step in clinical leadership within a dynamic and growing 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 & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent
- Registration with HCPC
- Registration with relevant professional body
- Dysphagia competent
Desirable criteria
- Registration with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of further study e.g. postgraduate degree, short courses relating to community setting
Experience
Essential criteria
- Management of neurological and long term conditions
- Assessment & treatment of complex clients with speech, language, communication needs and dysphagia
- Working with carers & MDT
- Writing reports and maintaining case notes
- Delivering and evaluating training
- Management of own caseload
- Applying the principals of research methodology through clinical audit
- Developing reflective clinical practice in self
- Experience of supervising junior members of staff
Desirable criteria
- Member of a relevant CEN
- Experience of working in acute, inpatient rehabilitation and community settings as well as in nursing homes.
- LSVT training
- Stammering training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of assessment tools relating the neurological client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Knowledge of a range of therapeutic interventions relating to the neurological client group with speech, language, communication and dysphagia needs.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy
- Ability to work in a less predictable environment and able to prioritise own workload with well-developed concentration skills.
- Good organisation skills
- Able to work as part of a team and remain calm under pressure
- Demonstration of good analytical and reflection skills
Other
Desirable criteria
- Car Driver
- Car owner
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
- Alexia Petrova
- Job title
- Clinical Lead SLT
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07884753760
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