Job Description

We have an exciting permanent, 3 day (22.5hour) opportunity for a new member to join our Speech & Language Therapy team at the Colman Centre for Specialist Rehabilitation Services as a Band 3 Speech and Language Therapy Assistant (starting in September 2025 ).



We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and creative Speech & Language Therapy Assistant to join our friendly team and advocate for our patients. You will be joining an experienced and supportive team striving to meet the swallowing and communication needs of both in-patients and out-patients with highly complex profiles.



The SLT assistant will work as part of the multidisciplinary team providing support to speech and language therapists by carrying out individual programmes of care for adult patients under the Colman Centre. They will work both alongside the therapists or alone (but under the therapist's direction). This will involve lone working in the community across Norfolk. They will work under the supervision of SLT to undertake a variety of clinical and non-clinical duties to support the delivery of the service. This will include administrative support for patient related activity and shared responsibility of indirect patient contact tasks.



To assist the speech and language therapists on a daily basis in supporting patients with complex swallowing and or communication difficulties under the direction/guidance of clinicians. This includes on the ward, in outpatient clinics and in the community.

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Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills.



See attached Speech & Language Therapy Assistant job description and person specification for further information.