Community Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

To provide a Speech and Language Therapy service across South East Essex for adults with communication and swallowing disorders seen within the service.

To work as part of the service team to provide continuing care for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties in the community.

To be responsible and accountable for the independent prioritisation and management of own clinical caseload.

To begin to take an active role in triaging and effectively prioritising new referrals.

To begin developing a clinical specialism and supporting colleagues within this specialist area.

To deliver training to other Speech and Language Therapists and the wider multi-disciplinary team within your specialist area.

To be actively involved in and work towards initiating audits and service improvement projects.

To supervise the work of less experienced SLTs, students and assistants and ensure that those to whom tasks are delegated (e.g. unqualified Speech and Language Therapy staff) have the appropriate level of competence. To work towards providing clinical supervision for a newly-qualified Speech and Language Therapist and support them through their NQP competencies.

To make a differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing difficulties on the basis of specialist formal and informal clinical assessments; to ensure that all interventions are based on accurate, appropriate and sufficient assessment.

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years' service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share:
  Applications for job shares are welcomed.

Date posted: 27 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £31,049 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 11 months

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 364-B-397

Job locations: Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Team Hadleigh Clinic, 49 London Road, Hadleigh, SS7 2QL
, United Kingdom

• To develop clear individual care plans based on clinical guidelines and established best practice.
• To use appropriate outcome measures to evaluate personal clinical effectiveness.
• To provide programmes of therapy activities and demonstrations of those activities to those concerned (family, staff, visitors) to enable carry over and generalisation of new skills into the wider communicative environment.
• To consider the need to adapt clinical practice to meet the needs of patients and carers including issues relating to disability, culture and educational attainment e.g. the format of written advice, wheelchair access and interpreters.
• To ensure smooth and appropriate handover of care from one agency to another; to provide reports, reflecting specialist knowledge and interpretation of specialist assessments, to other health professionals, including GPs and Hospital consultants as requested; to make and/or recommend onward referrals to other professionals or agencies, as appropriate.
• To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local guidelines and policies.
• To submit activity data, using Systm One, accurately, regularly and promptly in accordance with agreed guidelines and policies.
• To share information with others, observing data protection guidelines.
• To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment, ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained - including equipment loaned to clients and portable I.T. equipment.
• To take responsibility for ensuring that equipment and assessment tools and other essential supplies are requested in a timely manner.
• To participate in development of SLT Service risk…