Experienced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Adult Community SLT Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 30 hours per week Job ref 842-SCS-7835-26
Site Walton Hospital Town Chesterfield Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 08/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 19/10/2026
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of individuals from BME backgrounds and welcomes applicants from these communities. DCHS is also an LGBT inclusive employer. Selection will be on a basis of merit. The Trust has achieved the status of a Disability Confident Leader and guarantees to invite to assessment applicants who meet the criteria for the job vacancy. To ensure the diversity of the workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
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Job overview
Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire ESSD - 0.8wte
About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and motivated Speech & Language Therapistto join our Early Supported Stroke Discharge (ESSD) team, delivering care across Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire.
This is a great opportunity to be part of our well established and highly regarded ESSD model used across Derbyshire. You will play a key role in enabling people to leave hospital earlier and recover safely and effectively in their own homes, delivering high-quality, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation.
What you'll be part of
- A supportive, friendly and progressive ESSD service
- The widerStroke and Neurology Service and Speech & Language Therapy Service within DCHS
- A multidisciplinary team with a strong commitment topatient-centred, evidence-based care
- A service that placestraining, development and staff wellbeingat its heart
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a HCPC and RCSLT registered Speech and Language Therapist, with developed skills, working with communication impairments and dysphagia after stroke, as well as experience working with a community caseload including people with dementia and acquired neurological conditions. You will be able to demonstrate leadership skills in developing service provision and clinical pathways relating to these specialisms. You will have a commitment to providing a high standard of patient focussed care and be a strong team player, with the ability to lead and influence others.
You will be employed by Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT as part of their SLT service and as such have access to a team of colleagues with a range of skills and commitment to providing high standards of evidence based approaches, you will be supported by a SLT team leader.
We are a large and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy service of over 100 staff, working across all service areas in Derbyshire.
Working for our organisation
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.
Person specification
Experience
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Relevant experience post registration, including dysphagia, stroke and long term conditions
- Membership of relevant Clinical Education Networks
- Experience of supervising students and assistants. Feeding back to training establishments on performance
Skills
- Ability to understand and apply capacity/demand issues in service area to prioritise caseload according to levels of need and explain rationale for decision making to others
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team member providing mentorship, clinical supervision and second opinions
- Ability to move between community locations in the working day
- Experience in delivering training
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) is one of the largest providers of specialist community healthcare in England and we currently employ around 4,500 staff. We deliver a variety of services across Derbyshire, caring for nearly 1.8 million patients each year.
We deliver patient care through 11 community hospitals, 4 minor injury units, 29 health centres and a learning disability centre. Another key part of our service is out in the community where we care for people in their own homes via therapists, health visitors and district nurses, and promoting public health in the wider community. As a Trust we care for patients of all ages with a special focus on the needs of elderly people and the very young.
DCHS has been recognised as a top 10 NHS organisation to work for in the UK by the Health Service Journal and NHS Employers in their Best Places to Work 2015 campaign. The Trust is also the runner-up in the category for the best NHS community trust employer.
Our vision is to see the health of local communities improve through partnership working, putting people at the centre and looking to the future.
Our values:
1) To get the basics right - For each other, local people and communities
2) To act with compassion and respect - For each other, local people and communities
3) To make a positive difference - For each other, local people and communities
4) To value and develop teamwork - With our partners and within DCHS
5) To value diversity and inclusivity - Of each other, local people and communities.
The majority of our locations offer free parking facilities for staff.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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