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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “East Coast Community Healthcare CIC” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
We are delighted to be recruiting a part-time community Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (3 days a week) to join our friendly and supportive team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a service that delivers care across both community and acute settings, providing a truly integrated approach and ensuring patients receive support throughout their journey.
As a valued member of our team, you will manage a diverse caseload of people with a range of acquired and progressive communication and swallowing difficulties. The role offers excellent opportunities to develop specialist skills in both communication and dysphagia management.
As well as being connected to the wider Speech and Language Therapy service we work closely with the ECCH community Neurology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT), this integrated approach enhances patient outcomes, supports shared learning and creates a rewarding working environment for clinicians.
Main duties of the job
For the right candidate, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of adults with acquired and progressive communication and swallowing disorders across a range of community settings within the East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) locality.
Working as part of a supportive and skilled team, you will deliver specialist assessment and intervention in community clinics across Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft and Beccles, care homes and patients' own homes. The role offers a varied and rewarding caseload that enables you to develop your expertise while providing person-centred care. You will be working independently with complex communication and dysphagia presentations, helping individuals maintain their independence, wellbeing and quality of life.
You will also play a key role in shaping the future workforce by providing support to band 5 Speech and Language Therapists and students from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
We are looking for a motivated and experienced clinician with a passion for working in community and delivering high-quality care. The successful post holder will have appropriate postgraduate training and experience in complex communication intervention and be competent to a minimum of proficient level on the RCSLT eating, drinking and swallowing competency framework.
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
Job responsibilities
Core Responsibilities
- To adhere to National and local standards and guidelines relating to Professional Practice (CQ3 and HCPC)
- To be aware of and adhere to current legislation and employer procedures relating to the post
- To demonstrate commitment to personal development and acquisition of further skills and knowledge
- To keep abreast of research in the fields of dysphagia and communication disorders
- To be responsible for collecting own work statistics in accordance with ECCH policy
- To be responsible for managing own time appropriately
- To be responsible for managing defined caseloads
- To supervise work with junior colleagues, volunteers and assistants where appropriate
- To inform clients /carers/ other professionals of strategies which enable individuals to achieve optimal communication and swallowing potential.
- To be responsible for student observation
- To be able to support student placements when required
- To be able to work as a Practice Educator
- To be responsible for assessment, differential diagnosis, goal setting, formulation of treatment plans, writing assessment and reports, providing appropriate intervention, including self-management plans and evaluating the treatment outcomes for each individual patient.
- To screen, prioritise, assess, review, discharge individual patients as part of caseload management
- To review and discharge individual patients
- To seek second opinions when necessary
- To make onward referrals when necessary
- To accept support from designated colleagues
- Offer clinical support to junior colleagues
- To offer advice and education to carers and significant others about individual patients, and demonstrates practical procedures when appropriate
- To attend and contribute to staff and team meetings.
- To contribute to local and national audit and quality measures
- To highlight and request equipment necessary for caseload management
Indicative Features
Teaching Training and Clinical Supervision
- Regular access to department supervision system for clinical support
- Attend and participate in a programme of in-service training and provide training to junior colleagues, volunteers, assistants, professionals/carers, as part of the adult SLT training programme. Educate SLT students and other professional students by offering example-setting and by observation and explanation.
- Support junior colleagues in the planning & delivery of training.
Clinical Advice and Interpretation or Action
- Recognises own professional boundaries and seeks advice and support
- Provides advice and information to patients and their carers, health service professionals, and staff working with the client e.g. Social worker.
- Identifies need for onward referrals eg to ENT, Gastroenterology, Videofluoroscopy
Specialist Experience
- On full practise register (HCPC)
- Supported by experienced staff to develop skills in all areas when support is required
- Access second opinions.
- To provide support to junior colleagues
Complexity
- On-going professional support in all areas when required
- Manages own caseload and increased complexity of cases
- May work in more than one location, which may include home visits, clinics and community hospitals.
Resource Management, Planning and Policy Making
- Manages own time efficiently
- Responsible and accountable for own clinic equipment.
- Contributes to discussion on service planning and policy as a member of his/her team
Research, Evaluation and Development
- Keeps professionally up to date in the field/s in which working.
- Ensures own practice is safe and appropriate.
- Evaluates own performance through outcome measures.
- May provide data for others' research.
- Participates in clinical audit activities.
Staff Management and Leadership
- May direct junior colleagues, SLT assistants or volunteers
- To be aware of content of the HR policies and how this applies to their area of responsibility
All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word 'CARE'. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture. Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
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