Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Integrated Care System; Watford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist in Watford. This role involves providing specialized assessments and interventions for individuals with communication difficulties. The successful candidate will join a diverse multidisciplinary team and will be supported in their career development. The position offers a competitive salary ranging from £40,617 to £48,778 per annum pro rata.

Benefits

Continuous professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge and application of speech and language therapy assessments and interventions.
• Detailed knowledge of evidence-based practice and its contribution to practice governance.
• Experience of working within a learning disability setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention.
• Manage a caseload using evidence-based, person-centred principles.
• Work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Clear and effective communication

Knowledge of current best practice in SLT

Understanding of team dynamics

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Registration with HCPC

Member of the RCSLT

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Go back Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

The closing date is 11 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and innovative Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to join the Specialist Learning Disability Service based in West Hertfordshire.

The successful candidate will work as an influential and integral member of a diverse multi-disciplinary specialist learning disability health team working across a range of settings.

You will be forward thinking and able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in the area of adult learning disabilities based on current evidence. You will autonomously undertake specialist assessments and interventions with individuals with communication difficulties and dysphagia difficulties. The person successful in their application will be an essential member of the MDT, working alongside Psychiatry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Arts Therapies, Physiotherapy and Social Care colleagues to support our service users achieve their goals.

The post offers good links with SLT colleagues throughout HPFT services. You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Senior Lead Speech and Language Therapist and peers. There is a strong ethos of Continuous Quality Improvement throughout the service and the Trust as a whole, creating possibilities for developing and extending knowledge and skills. You will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development activities.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality, comprehensive Speech and language Therapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group

To manage a caseload using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in community settings

To provide this service-to-service users, who present with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties

To undertake supervision of junior staff and students as required

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job responsibilities

Please refer to attached job description and person specification for more information on the role requirements required for this position.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registration with HCPC
• Member of the RCSLT
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Previous Experience

• Specialist knowledge and application of speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
• Detailed knowledge of evidence-based practice and its contribution to practice governance
• Planning and coordination of treatment packages
• Experience of working within a learning disability setting
• Experience of managing a caseload (either both dysphagia and/or communication) caseload

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY

• Clear and effective communication through written, verbal and non-verbal modes
• Broad knowledge of current best practice in SLT, learning disabilities and mental health
• Understanding of team dynamics

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£40,617 to £48,778 a yearper annum pro rata (inclusive of 5% HCAS)