Community Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Location
Wakefield, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeInternship
Posted At3/27/2026
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Speech and language therapists
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Description
If you would like further information or wish to arrange a visit, please contact:
midyorks.teamleadadultslt@nhs.net
Tima Amirkamali (Adult SLT Team Lead) or Shorufa YasminIqbal (Community Team Clinical Lead)
01924 543397
About The Role
Are you looking for a role where your clinical expertise genuinely makes a difference? Join a service where compassion, collaboration and professional growth are truly valued. Our Community Adult Speech & Language Therapy Team offers the opportunity to work with a diverse and rewarding caseload, shape community practice, and be part of a supportive team that prioritises your ideas, your wellbeing, and your development.
We are looking for a motivated Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to work across the Wakefield and district community, delivering highquality care for adults with communication and swallowing needs.
You will work across a range of settings including patients’ homes, nursing and residential care, and outpatient clinics. You will manage a varied, clinically rewarding caseload, including stroke, brain injury, progressive neurological conditions, dementia, and respiratory presentations. You will join a skilled and welcoming team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care.
If you enjoy autonomous working, varied clinical presentations, and the opportunity to build meaningful therapeutic relationships in community settings, this could be the perfect next step for you. Prospective applicants are warmly invited to visit the team.
The Adult SLT service at Mid Yorkshire is dynamic, supportive and committed to highquality care. You will receive regular supervision, CPD opportunities and access to inhouse learning and CPDs. Our service offers Ampcare, EMST and Videofluoroscopy and FEES assessment. Internal exposure to these specialist areas may be available depending on service capacity and needs, with opportunities to observe and gain referrerlevel skills and knowledge where appropriate.
This role also involves supporting the design and delivery of training within community settings - such as care homes and partner organisations, to enhance knowledge, promote safe practice and support the wider workforce, alongside the Community Clinical Lead and other community colleagues.
You will also have opportunities to supervise Band 5 SLTs and students, contribute to service development work, and develop leadership skills through involvement in quality improvement and audit.
We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled team who live the Mid Yorkshire values and are proud of the service we provide.
Professional and clinical development
midyorks.teamleadadultslt@nhs.net
Tima Amirkamali (Adult SLT Team Lead) or Shorufa YasminIqbal (Community Team Clinical Lead)
01924 543397
About The Role
Are you looking for a role where your clinical expertise genuinely makes a difference? Join a service where compassion, collaboration and professional growth are truly valued. Our Community Adult Speech & Language Therapy Team offers the opportunity to work with a diverse and rewarding caseload, shape community practice, and be part of a supportive team that prioritises your ideas, your wellbeing, and your development.
We are looking for a motivated Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to work across the Wakefield and district community, delivering highquality care for adults with communication and swallowing needs.
You will work across a range of settings including patients’ homes, nursing and residential care, and outpatient clinics. You will manage a varied, clinically rewarding caseload, including stroke, brain injury, progressive neurological conditions, dementia, and respiratory presentations. You will join a skilled and welcoming team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care.
If you enjoy autonomous working, varied clinical presentations, and the opportunity to build meaningful therapeutic relationships in community settings, this could be the perfect next step for you. Prospective applicants are warmly invited to visit the team.
The Adult SLT service at Mid Yorkshire is dynamic, supportive and committed to highquality care. You will receive regular supervision, CPD opportunities and access to inhouse learning and CPDs. Our service offers Ampcare, EMST and Videofluoroscopy and FEES assessment. Internal exposure to these specialist areas may be available depending on service capacity and needs, with opportunities to observe and gain referrerlevel skills and knowledge where appropriate.
This role also involves supporting the design and delivery of training within community settings - such as care homes and partner organisations, to enhance knowledge, promote safe practice and support the wider workforce, alongside the Community Clinical Lead and other community colleagues.
You will also have opportunities to supervise Band 5 SLTs and students, contribute to service development work, and develop leadership skills through involvement in quality improvement and audit.
We are a friendly, supportive and highly skilled team who live the Mid Yorkshire values and are proud of the service we provide.
Professional and clinical development
- Regular supervision and access to CPD opportunities and internal specialist learnings
- Supportive, friendly and experienced colleagues
- A dynamic, innovative service that welcomes clinicianled ideas
- A varied and rewarding community caseload
- Opportunities to develop leadership, teaching and training skills
The Main Duties Of This Role Include
- Working in a community setting to provide a high-quality service for our patients who have swallow and communication difficulties. Therefore effective independent caseload management skills, experience and knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with stroke, brain injury, progressive neuro, dementia, and respiratory presentations etc. are required.
- The post holder will work flexibly as required to maintain a responsive, patient centred and evidence-based service for optimal patient outcomes.
- You will support and work with the Service Lead, Team Lead and Clinical Leads for Adult Speech and Language Therapy to enable us to deliver a comprehensive service to adults with a range of disorders of communication and swallowing.
- You will be delivering training and education to patient, carers and third parties.
- To liaise closely with colleagues in the acute and community settings to facilitate the smooth transfer of care, to contribute to schemes supporting early discharge from hospital and reducing unscheduled admissions to hospital.
- To supervise, support and provide clinical education as required to less experienced Speech and Language Therapists, students, and assistants.
- To lead relevant projects for the SLT service.
- Excellent inter-personal, communication, motivational, emerging leadership and team working skills are important components of how we work, in addition to our clinical skills.
- Support delivery of training and education within community settings, including care homes, partner services and other community colleagues.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute and community trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application Guidance
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Our Benefits
- Access to the NHS pension plan
- Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
- Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
- Extensive benefits and support, including:
- Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Home electronics scheme
- Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
- Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
- Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
- Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
- Career progression, training and support
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