Job Introduction
Are you a positive, enthusiastic, motivated, Speech and Language Therapy Assistant? Are you keen to be involved in a pilot project to develop a new, exciting Assistant Practitioner role within the Speech and Language Therapy Team?
We have some exciting part time posts available working 30 hours per week term time only, based in the county town of Trowbridge (or Chippenham or Salisbury), at one of our main Hubs in Wiltshire.
Main Responsibility
As the Assistant Practitioner you will offer support to children and young people, their families and other service users. You will reduce the impact of speech and language difficulties, to allow children to participate in daily life and inspire them to reach their full potential.
Working within the dynamic Wiltshire children's community team, you will provide some assessment and intervention for preschool and school aged children who experience speech, language, or communication difficulties. This is delivered within preschools, clinics, schools, and other community settings throughout Wiltshire, therefore owning and driving a car is essential. Agile working is encouraged including some home working, the use of virtual consultations, as well as face to face appointments where appropriate.
The Ideal Candidate
- You will have experience of working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties as part of the Wiltshire Community Speech and Language Therapy Service.
- You will be interested in training and development to learn about formal assessment, as well as being able to analyse the results of these in order to set appropriate targets for the children.
- You would also need to be able to evaluate and analyse the development of this new role as part of a working party.
- We offer regular, ongoing, internal opportunities for CPD in all core areas of speech, language and communication needs.
- You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
Package Description
As an Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Wiltshire.
You will feel valued as an Assistant Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £24,000 with access to our group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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