The closing date is 04 November 2026
Salary: £58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum incl. of HCAs (inner)
Job summary
TITLE OF POST – Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist
Job Overview:
- The Transforming Care Autism service was developed to meet the needs of autistic individuals at risk of admission to, or within, mainstream mental health services.
- The Speech and Language Therapist will have opportunities to shape the best use of speech and language therapy input to this client group, as part of a small multidisciplinary team.
- The team approach is two-fold: 1. Increase capability of mainstream adult mental health services to work with autistic adults through teaching and training; and 2. Provide a crisis response for named service users at risk of admission, working with the treating mental health teams.
- The team consists of a range of professionals including Psychological Practitioners, an Occupational Therapist, Behavioural Practitioner, Speech and Language Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrist and a Community Nurse. The team is friendly and supportive and works closely together to ensure the best outcomes of the individuals we work with.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role:
Job Purpose:
- To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
- To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
- To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
- To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
- To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
- To offer training to mainstream services.
- To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEntry-level qualification in Speech and Language Therapy and demonstrable practice in this field (professional Doctorate, or combination of MSc plus supervised practice/additional training) that has been accepted for the purposes of professional registration.
- oRegistered with professional body as appropriate to discipline eg. HCPC/RCN.
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions.
- oExperience that supports working with, and addressing issues of, diversity within local communities including experience of working within a multicultural framework. This may have been gained through work, research, volunteering and / or lived experience. (A/I)
- oExperience of assessment and treatment of clients with a range of psychological needs of a complex nature.
- oExperience of developing and carrying out audit/research projects. (A/I)
- oExperience of multi-disciplinary working.
Knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of a range of a range of therapeutic ideas/approaches systemic models in assessment and treatment relevant to discipline (A/I/R)
Skills
Essential
- oTo communicate skilfully and sensitively complex and sensitive information with clients, carers and colleagues overcoming barriers to communication including sensory, and emotional difficulties, cultural differences and hostility to or rejection of information. (A/I/R)
- oSkills in providing teaching and training to other professional groups. (A/I/R)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
