Senior Speech and Language Therapist (Experts at Hand) – CFHD

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Job summary

Exciting Job opportunities!!!

CFHD are looking
to recruit four 1.0wte Speech and Language Therapists to provide
specialist Speech and Language Therapy support within the Experts at Hand
service through advice, consultation, modelling of strategies, training, and
targeted intervention.

The base locations for these will be in Exeter, Newton Abbot, or Barnstaple.

The post-holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and
autonomously to support children and young people, families, and professionals
by building capacity within early years, school and post-16 settings,
delivering training, and offering time-limited direct interventions where
indicated.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are
developing an innovative, integrated model of children’s community services and
looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated
locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong,
enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your
phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real
sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your
daily work, your career development and your support network.

Main duties of the job

The speech and
language therapy service within CFHD have transformed to work within the
Balanced System framework.

Manage a caseload
of children and young people with Speech, language and communication needs
(SLCN) using evidenced based practice to assess, plan, formulate, implement and
evaluate interventions in a variety of settings (individually and/or in groups)
and as part of a multidisciplinary team

Provide clinical
support and supervision to the less experienced SLTs in the team

Work with the
Clinical Team Manager to co-ordinate the clinic and oversee the day-to-day
caseload management

Participate in the
provision of student placements

Co-ordinate the
team audit and monitoring of outcomes for interventions and report to locality
lead

Using a
strengths-based approach; ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of
evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routine
outcome measures

Promote and
support participation of service users across the service

Participate in
clinical audits and clinical research as appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
  • Full Registration with Health Professions Council
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
  • Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups

Desirable

  • Evidence of successful completion of specialist post graduate short courses relating to any paediatric communication disorders including Stammering, Learning Disability and Autism.

Experience

Essential

  • Highly developed specialist knowledge (acquired through attending specialist short courses) to enable post holder to work autonomously
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge of independent management of complex and highly specialised caseload and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
  • In depth knowledge of children with special needs and associated conditions underpinned by current evidence-based practice
  • Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment and therapeutic tools relevant to working with children and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
  • Ability to make a differential diagnosis, choose appropriate treatments from a range of options and provide specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes by use of evidence-based practice
  • Ability to use specialist experience to inform sound clinical judgements/ decision making for case management
  • Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
  • Proven relevant experience post qualification in managing a complex varied caseload and in working autonomously in the community

Desirable

  • Competence in delivering language development training to both professional and untrained staff in the community
  • Experience supervising speech and language therapy programme implementation by early years and mainstream school staff
  • Experience in team leading and organising a local service/clinic
  • Experience of supervising less experienced Speech and Language Therapists
  • Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams.
  • Experience working in early years, school age and specialist settings.
  • Experience providing assessment and intervention for children and young people who stammer, and knowledge of current evidence-based practices related to stammering.

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).

Closing Date: 7 August 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.