Speech & Language Therapist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester (VT); On-site; USD 43,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

Flexible working options

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Job summary

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Speech & Language Therapist for our Community SALT team. This role supports patients across home visits, nursing and residential homes, and in community hospitals, with strong peer and personal supervision.

The post may become permanent once recurrent funding is approved and involves working within a large NHS trust with extensive training opportunities.

Job description

Speech & Language Therapist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Community SALT team to join our amazing team.

This role is suitable for both newly qualified therapists and for those who are looking to gain experience working in a community setting working with a wide variety of different clinical presentations.

We have lots of collective experience between us and have excellent liaison with the acute SALT team and Essex university and 3rd sector organisations.

Provisional interview date - 30th October 2026

You will be working in a range of settings including patient's own homes, nursing and residential homes and with inpatients at our Community Hospitals.

You will be very well supported with regular peer and personal supervision and there will be an expectation for you to complete your dysphagia and NQP competencies if this is needed.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

It is anticipated that this post will also become permanent once we have approved recurrent funding.

This advert closes on Monday 26 Oct 2026