Speech and Language Therapist

Speech and Language Therapist

Location:

St Austell Hospital, St Austell, Cornwall, UK

Band: 5, Permanent, Full time (37.5 hours per week), Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 per annum

This post is open to newly qualified professionals and those returning to practice. We are offering an opportunity to join the Cornwall Children’s Community Speech and Language Therapy service as a Speech and Language Therapist in our Central locality team. The role involves working with a mixed 0‑18 years caseload in community settings, education settings, home visits and clinic appointments across St Austell and Newquay.

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate interventions and therapy for a 0‑18 years mixed community caseload.
• Provide clinical support in education settings, home visits and clinic appointments.
• Deliver assessment and intervention and provide consultation and training to families, educators and other health professionals.
• Work 3 days in the St Austell area and two days within the Newquay area.
• Possibility to develop a mixed communication and dysphagia caseload for applicants with the appropriate competencies.

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or equivalent) and registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Undergraduate paediatric clinical experience in a range of settings.
• Knowledge of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for children, including differential diagnosis and caseload management strategies.
• Membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (desirable).

• Support to complete RCSLT newly qualified competencies through regular supervision and the Trust preceptorship programme.
• Flexible working options, including job share, part‑time and other flexible patterns.
• Regular clinical and managerial supervision and professional support from clinical leads.
• Opportunities to deliver intervention blocks as part of the episode of care model.
• CPD through in‑house away days, team meetings and the Trust’s central development fund.
• Career development programmes, coaching, mentoring and a dedicated central development fund.
• Health and wellbeing initiatives, free access to HARP portfolios, free DBS checks, NHS Pension Scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, cycle to work scheme, discounts from retailers, etc.

Applications are currently only open to staff who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly, specifically within:

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

To apply, please review the attached job description and person specification and submit your application via the Trust system. Applications will be closed once a sufficient number of candidates have been received. Successful candidates will be contacted via email for interview details.

The Trust welcomes and values individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce, and is committed to supporting inclusive careers.