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Main area Speech and Language Therapist
- Community Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent

• Full time
• Flexible working

Hours:

37.5 hours per week (0.6

WTE CNRT, 0.4

WTE Adult Community SLT Team) Job  
-OPS

Site:
Shropshire Rehabilitation Centre Town Shrewsbury Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata / per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 13/09/2026 23:59

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Join us in transforming rehabilitation and community care.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our services working across the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Community and Hospitals NHS Group .

This split role provides the opportunity to work across both the Community Neuro Rehabilitation Team (CNRT) and the Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Service. The postholder will support adults with a wide range of complex communication and swallowing needs in community clinics, patients' homes and wider community settings.

The successful candidate will become part of an integrated multidisciplinary workforce, working alongside a team of friendly, experienced speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, assistant practitioners and administrator s to deliver high-quality person-centred rehabilitation and care.

The post holder will be based in Shrewsbury and will provide services across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin . The post includes three days within the CNRT and two days with the Adult Community SLT Service.

You will deliver speech and language therapy to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties. You r caseload will cover a wide range of diagnoses including stroke, acquired brain injury, Parkinson’s, Motor Neurone Disease, Dementia, and other long-term health conditions.

You will provide person-centred, goal-focussed assessment and management with the aim of supporting people to maximise independence, participation and quality of life.

You will assist in service development including quality improvement initiatives, audits, s upporting students on placement and delivering training programmes .

T here are regular opportunities for continuing professional development both within and outside the teams. All SLTs have regular clinical and management supervision. We can refer to specialist clinics including Videofluoroscopy , FEES and ENT and SLT
-led nasendoscopy voice clinics and attending these appointments with your patient is encouraged.

The role offers excellent opportunities for developing skills in managing a neurological caseload , supported by our friendly and experienced team s .

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

If you would like to talk to us about this vacancy or arrange an informal visit, please contact Kadia Acres (CNRT) or Julie Harrison (Community Speech and Language therapy)

• Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent qualification
• Current registration with HCPC
• Post graduate certificate in dysphagia (or equivalent substantial experience and experiential training to demonstrate skills)
• To be eligible for Certified membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. ie.to have completed all NQP competencies
• Evidence of post graduate training/CPD in areas of acquired neurological communication and swallowing disorders

• Experience of carrying out specialist assessment and intervention within area of acquired neurological communication and swallowing disorders.
• Experience of…