Job Introduction
An exciting opportunity to build your career as a BANK Speech and Language Therapist in a supportive and dynamic team!
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of school-aged children? Do you want to work in a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team where your professional development is a priority? We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated BANK Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated service.
You will deliver high quality care to children with speech, language, and communication needs from 0-19 years at home, pre-school and school settings (including special schools) as well as other community-based settings across BSW B&NES, Swindon and Wiltshire).
Base - Saltway Centre, Pearl Road, Middleleaze Drive, Swindon, SN5 5TD
This is a BANK contract.
Main Responsibilities:
- Assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s communication difficulties through the use of standardised assessments, reflection of auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a child’s communication, informal observation, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents and school staff.
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills.
- Skills in handling children with disabilities including making oral examinations.
- Specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/decision making for case management.
- Identification of appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness, and to develop and implement speech and language therapy treatment using information gained through assessment and to develop clear care plans based on evidence and the evaluation of outcomes.
- To produce reports reflecting clinical knowledge regarding patients’ needs and summarising proposed care plans for parents, carers, school staff, educational psychologists and the local education department and medical staff including paediatricians. This may include production of reports for education, health and care plans.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
For any enquiries, please contact Stuart.Cook@hcrgcaregroup.com
The ideal candidate will have:
Essential:
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- Health Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of the standards of record keeping
- Excellent interpersonal skills – including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Excellent diplomacy skills
- Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team member including working with other agencies
- Well-developed concentration skills
- Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal
- Excellent organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills
- Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
- Experience working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties as an undergraduate
- Experience of developing relationships with staff from other agencies/organisations and management teams
Desirable:
- Knowledge of Signalong
- Experience of working within mainstream and/or specialist provision
- Experience of delivering training
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy
- Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and audit
- Knowledge and experience of working with children with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties
Package Description
As a Bank Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll be working as part of the HCRG Care Group Team in our 0-19 service. As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:
- £23.89 an hour
- Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
- Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
- HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
- Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
- Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
- Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
- Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
- Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
- Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
- Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
- 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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