Highly Specialist Children's Speech and Language Therapist
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
Malinslee Telford / Shrewsbury, TF3 2BF
Salary
Negotiable
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
15 September 2026
11 days left
Job description
We are excited to announce the launch of recruitment to support the development of our new Experts at Hand team, enabling the local delivery of the na...
- To deliver care and support at a highly specialist level.
- To develop your knowledge, skills and clinical networks in your chosen specialist area respondingto available evidence and being involved in audit, service improvement and research.
- To analyse and interpret clinical and non-clinical information to form an accurate profile of strengths, difficulties and needs, diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions.
- To develop care plans in partnership with children and young people, parents and others in children's lives.
- Where needed to undertake comprehensive autonomous speech, language and communication assessment for children and young people, including those with complex presentations, using investigative and analytical skills.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
There may also be opportunities to work in the core SLT service to strengthen your clinical experience and maintain/extend your wider clinical skills and current areas of speciality.
You will join a team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists who work collaboratively and are committed to delivering NHS values and providing compassionate support to children and young people, parents, and one another.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
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.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
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.
We are committed to supporting your clinical and career development through supervision, peer support and designated in house and external CPD.
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- Holds recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent.
- Holds Health Professions Council licence to practice as a Speech and Language Therapist.
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Evidence of completion of relevant short course and continuing professional development
- Holds post-graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia or is able to participate and complete a post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia.
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Extensive experience at post-graduate level with a range of speech, language communication difficulties in children.
- Significant experience of working with children and young people with a range of complex speech, language, and special educational needs including evidence of working with CYP who stammer
- Significant experience at post-graduate level of working in multidisciplinary teams to assess the needs of children and families.
- Experience at post-graduate level of using a range of assessments and assessment processes including experience of assessment for CYP for whom there are stammering concerns
- Experience of data gathering methodology and participation in clinical audit.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential
- National policies and procedures relevant to Children's Speech and Language Therapy and to Children and Young People's Education.
- Safeguarding procedures and their implementation in practice.
- Demonstrate an ongoing awareness of recent developments in practice and research including National guidance including for CYP who stammer
- Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and their implications for the service.
- Excellent analytical and reflective skills.
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant speech, language, and communication assessments, interventions, and techniques how to evaluate their relevance and effectiveness.
Other
Essential
- Must be able to meet the transport requirements of the post
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
2 September 2026
Last checked
4 September 2026
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