Job Introduction
Join us on Thursday 14th and Friday 15th of July for a recruitment open day, where you can find out more about healthcare opportunities with HCRG Care Group.
We have vacancies for specialist roles such as Speech and Language Therapists. Come along to The Abbey Hotel in Bath from 10am to 5pm to learn more about the roles, speak to our recruitment staff and meet what could be your future team.
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As a Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll be working as part of HCRG Care Group, Bath where we deliver Speech and Language Therapy Services to all adults over 18 years of age with a communication or swallowing difficulty.
This role will be integrated across physical and mental health care services, provided by HCRG Care Group and the Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) Therapies Team within the AWP NHS Trust. This provides an opportunity to provide Speech and Language Therapy across a diverse population, and develop a specialism within Mental Health services.
Services are offered across the community and some inpatient work in our community hospitals.
We are a highly supportive, dynamic and innovative team, who are dedicated and committed to providing an efficient, responsive and quality service to our service users.
Main Responsibility
Your key responsibilities as a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist will be:
- Triaging, assessing and treating adults referred into the service for difficulties with their communication or swallowing.
- You will provide advice, education and support to service users, their carers, family memebers and other staff, in order to promote a good understanding of the person's condition and how to support them, with a view to allowing the person to be able to self-manage their concerns as indpendently as possible.
- You will be jointly responsible for quality improvment and transformation projects and tasks within the teams, and support more junior members of the team and student Speech and Language Therapists.
- You will act in a consultative capacity with the AWP team, ensuring good communication across the services and promoting Speech and Language Therapy in mental health.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy, evidence of post registration dysphagia competence and a current and active registration with HCPC and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy. You will have a number of years experience working with adults who have progressive neurological disorders, stroke and / or mental health conditions. You will have have experience of working in MDTs, of working independently and holding your own caseload. You may have experience of VFS referral and interpretation.
We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.
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 a Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset.
You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 AfC salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 100% 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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