Job Introduction
We are looking for a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our community Speech and Language Therapy team based at our Derby Court, Trowbridge location.
If you are dedicated to raising awareness of speech, language and communication needs in young people in the community, we’d love to hear from you!
You will work alongside our Band 5 and Band 7 Speech and Language Therapists as well as Speech and Language Therapy Assistants, and report to the Hub Team Lead. You will support preschool and school age children up to the age of 19 years with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties and their families within the Wiltshire community. You will assess a child’s communication difficulties using formal and informal assessment, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents and professionals.
We are particularly interested to hear from Speech and Language Therapists with a special interest or post graduate training in voice, stammering, dysphagia or other clinical areas. Additional training could be considered to an appropriate candidate for these or other clinical areas.
You will join a team who is innovative and progressive with a focus on fostering development for all their staff with opportunities for apprenticeships and other development opportunities.
Service hours are typically 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, with opportunities for flexibility within this upon discussion.
Main Responsibility
As a Speech and Language Therapist you will manage a caseload of children with multiple and complex SLCN including children with social, emotional and mental health needs
You will provide specialist advice and support to the Wiltshire SALT service in order to identify and enable effective support and intervention for those with speech, language and communication difficulties.
You will participate in multidisciplinary planning and strategy meetings regarding the needs of specific young people and the service as a whole. This will include identifying gaps in the service and generating possible solutions.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have:
- A recognised Speech and Language Therapy/Pathology Degree Qualification
- HCPC Registration and be a Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy
- 3 years previous experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist
- Knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with language disorder, speech sound disorders, stammering difficulties, autism spectrum disorders and other complex communication difficulties
- Valid UK Driving Licence and access to a car
Package Description
As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist you’ll be part of our valued team at Trowbridge
You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk 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
Return to Practice:
Are you looking to return to practice as a Speech and Language Therapist? We can help you refresh and develop your skills and knowledge.
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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