Experienced Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
NHS
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Job summary
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT is seeking an Experienced Specialist Speech & Language Therapist for its Children's Team. The role focuses on initial assessments to cut waiting times across North Derbyshire, with subsequent clinical service delivery across Derbyshire in schools, nurseries, clinics and homes.
You must be HCPC registered with a recognised degree in SLT and be mobile between locations.
Qualifications
- Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills.
- Experience of working collaboratively with parents, education staff and multi agency professionals.
- Excellent organisation skills with ability to work to deadlines.
Responsibilities
- Deliver initial assessments to reduce waiting lists in the first 12 months.
- Provide a clinical service to children and young people in education settings, nurseries, clinics and homes after 12 months.
- Work across Chesterfield and North Derbyshire and travel between locations.
Skills
Education
Job description
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
The closing date is 25 September 2026
We are a large and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy service of around 100 staff, working across all service areas in Derbyshire.
This exciting opportunity has arisen in the children's team and we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced speech and language therapist with specialist skills in working with SLCN, social communication, speech sound disorders and DLD.
This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in reducing waiting times for children and young people accessing Speech and Language Therapy services. For the first 12 months, you will focus specifically on supporting the reduction of waiting lists through the delivery of initial assessments. This dedicated piece of work will contribute significantly to improving timely access to services for children and families across North Derbyshire.
We are a large and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy service of around 100 staff, working across all service areas in Derbyshire.
This exciting opportunity has arisen in the children's team and we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced speech and language therapist with specialist skills in working with SLCN, social communication, speech sound disorders and DLD.
This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in reducing waiting times for children and young people accessing Speech and Language Therapy services. For the first 12 months, you will focus specifically on supporting the reduction of waiting lists through the delivery of initial assessments. This dedicated piece of work will contribute significantly to improving timely access to services for children and families across North Derbyshire.
After the first 12 months, you will then provide a clinical service to children and young people with a range of communication difficulties in a variety of settings, including education settings, nurseries, clinics and clients' homes.
The role is 1.0 wte and covers the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Area.
Please contact the service if you wish to find out more about this role.
All our therapists work with children who have a wide range of speech, language, communication and eating and drinking needs. This post has an additional specialist area of interest in assessment and intervention of children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs.
The successful candidate will be a HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist and be mobile between locations.
They will be proficient in their abilities to deliver high-quality, evidence-based practice, with a proven ability to provide leadership and support within an SLT service.
You will work alongside a friendly team of SLTs, SLPs and SLTAs, with line management support from an SLT team leader, as well as having access to clinical supervision and relevant CPD opportunities.
You will have a commitment to providing a high standard of patient-focused care and be a strong team player.
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.
Benefits include:
- Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
- 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
- Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
- Health service discounts and online benefits
- Incremental pay progression
- HCPC registered
- recognised degree in speech and language therapy
- Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills
- Experience of working collaboratively with parents, education staff and multi agency professionals
- Excellent organisation skills with ability to work to deadlines
- Specialist training relevant to speech sound disorders, DLD or social communication differences.
- Able to work as part of a Team
- Adaptable to change
- Enjoys problem solving and developing new ways of working
- Access to transport and able to travel efficiently across the locations
- Experience of working with children with a broad range of needs
- Demonstrable experience of conducting efficient, high-quality initial assessments and making appropriate recommendations for children with a range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs within agreed timescales
- Strong knowledge of assessments and assessment techniques used with children and young people
- minimum of 2 years post qualification experience as a SLT
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.
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) .
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please seeNHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHSFT
Walton Hospital
Whitecotes Lane
Chesterfield
S40 3HW
United Kingdom
http://www.dchs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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