Speech and Language Therapist

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust; Exeter; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking an enthusiastic full-time Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist based in Exeter. The successful candidate will work within a supportive team, delivering community speech therapy services to children and young people in both clinic and educational settings. Responsibilities include managing caseloads, providing assessment and intervention services, and collaborating with families and multidisciplinary teams. Candidates should have a relevant degree, a licence to practice, and experience with children and young people.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic interventions for children.
• Membership in relevant Special Interest Groups.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of children with developmental disorders.
• Provide assessments, diagnoses, and interventions.
• Develop and demonstrate negotiation skills in conflict management.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Empathy

Observation

Listening

Education

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent

Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice

Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Tools

Assessment tools

Job description

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 05 February 2026

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated full time Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist.

This post will be based in Exeter and will be part of the highly supportive Exeter and Okehampton S&LT Team, delivering a community speech and language therapy service to children and young people within clinic and education settings.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of childrens 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 Communication and Interaction pathway consists of Speech and Language Therapists working across Devon and Torbay.

The aim of the team is to ensure that specialist support is easily accessible within the community settings, providing both direct support to children, young people and families, and to the wider community teams.

Everyone in the team is provided with regular supervision, opportunities for training and development.

• To independently manage, with access to support from more senior colleagues and the team, a caseload of children and young people in the Exeter area with developmental disorders of speech, language and communication.
• The provision of a speech and language therapy service of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of developmental disorders of speech, language and communication.
• To provide appropriate intervention and evaluate outcomes.
• To provide advice to parents and carers, early years and school staff and other professionals on matters relating to the speech, language and communication needs of individual children and young people.
• To set up and monitor programmes to be carried out by other key workers.
• To write reports reflecting specialist knowledge.

About us

Why Work With Us

Children and Family Health Devon is a system-wide service that delivers an integrated, coordinated support model which wraps around the child, young person and family.

It has been specifically designed to respond to all elements of the commissioner’s strategy and specification along with the vision and strategic direction of the STP.

It builds on our strong relationships across education, health, social care and voluntary sector services in Devon, and, most importantly, it has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/ carers.

Job responsibilities

• To communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to children/young people and families, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team/other professions in a way that is accessible and easily understood.
• This will include facilitating strategies for people with communication disorders where barriers to understanding may exist.
• To demonstrate empathy with children/young people and families, carers and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to communication exist, or sensitive issues are being dealt with. Children/young people and families and carers will frequently have difficulty accepting the information provided.
• To develop and demonstrate negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations e.g. differences in professional opinion, differing views within families, with the support from colleagues as needed.
• To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties.
• To employ good presentation skills to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to a broad range of audiences including other professionals and users
• To write reports reflecting knowledge of children that can be accessible to both lay and professional people.

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent.
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice.
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups.

Knowledge

• Relevant experience of working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs in community / education settings.
• Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to working with children.
• Well established knowledge of a broad range of appropriate therapeutic interventions to treat children.

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.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust