Inpatient Band 6 SLT post | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust; Sterling Place (IL); On-site; USD 61,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Supervision

CPD access

Training opportunities

Free staff parking

Talking Mats training

Equipment budget

Job summary

The Ealing Community Partners, Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team seeks an enthusiastic Band 6 SLT to join our inpatient service at Clayponds Hospital. You will work within a supportive multi-professional team to assess and treat adults with communication and swallowing disorders, including neurological conditions and stroke.

We offer strong supervision, CPD opportunities, and access to resources to develop your knowledge.

Qualifications

• Qualified SLT with experience in dysphagia and neuro conditions.
• Knowledge of stroke, dementia and elderly care is preferred.
• Excellent communication and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties.
• Provide specialist assessment and formulate intervention plans.
• Write comprehensive reports for other professionals.
• Collaborate with SLT team and multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Support CPD and professional development within the team.

Skills

SLT experience

Dysphagia

Neurological disorders

Stroke

Teamwork

Education

SLT degree

Job description

Inpatient Band 6 SLT post | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Company: CNWL NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £45,953 - £54,254 Per annum incl. HCAS (pro rata if P/T)

Hours: Full-time

Location: Sterling Place, W5 4RN

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 10 Nov 2026

Closing date: 10 Dec 2026

The Ealing Community Partners, Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team, require an enthusiastic Band 6 Therapist, to be part of our friendly team.

We are a supportive and experienced, specialist community team of Band 8a, B7’s, B6 roles, B5 roles and SLT Assistant’s, with a strong commitment to CPD. We offer excellent clinical and professional support and supervision, and access to relevant courses, internally and externally, to support you in developing your knowledge and skills.

The posts will be located within the Ealing Community Partners, Adult Community SLT inpatient SLT service at Clayponds Hospital. Clayponds Hospital is a 70 bedded rehabilitation hospital. There are 3 pathways of care that include: admission avoidance; elderly rehabilitation & Neuro/Stroke level 3 rehabilitation unit. To find out more about this provision, please visit:Rosemary ward

You will be managed, supervised and will work closely with SLT Assistants and the wider SLT team, including a Band 8a & 7 team leads.

The successful candidates will ideally have, some knowledge, skill and experience of working with both dysphagia and communication patients as a result of Neurological disorders including stroke, progressive degenerative disorders, care of the elderly and dementia.

The successful candidates will be an active member of the multi-professional teams based at Clayponds Hospital. Good communication, liaison and time-management skills are required to manage the caseload effectively, in addition to being forward thinking and enthusiastic.

To use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties for patients in an inpatient setting.

To provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning, and develop and implement appropriate interventions/rehabilitation to be delivered in an inpatient settng.

To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.

To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals reflecting specialist knowledge.

To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management.

To ensure that patients and/or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and wherever possible facilitate patients with communication and/or cognitive difficulties to participate in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes.

To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to maximise the patient’s skills and reduce clinical risk.

To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies.

To adapt practice to meet individual patients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of patient’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.

To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of adult neurology (including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, and dementia).

To demonstrate some knowledge and use of high and low technology communication aids with a range of patients.

To manage risk when dealing with people who have swallowing difficulties, to promote choice by providing information about the risks and to contribute to moral and ethical decision making about oral and/or alternative feeding choices.

We strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

• An excellent support and supervision structure, including a Trust, SLT Lead. The Ealing Adult SLT team were awarded The SCARF Superstar Team finalist award at the CNWL NHS Trust GEM awards, 2026.
• Excellent professional development and ongoing training opportunities both internal and external
• An interesting, manageable, caseload
• Access to Talking Mats training
• Access to a department budget for resources and equipment including a specific, Communications Aids Budget
• An opportunity to participate in innovative new work models
• Fast, effective, IT and technology
• Excellent MDT working opportunities
• Good links to the Acute environment and access to timely VF
• Work from a purpose built location with free staff parking
• Speech and language therapy for adults :: West London NHS Trust

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

The Ealing Adult SLT Team form part of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust portfolio of services and we work closely with our colleagues within West London NHS Trust.

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.