Job Introduction
Due to internal promotion, we now have an opportunity for a community paediatric Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive West Essex Integrated Therapies Team.
This is a permanent, full time position between Monday – Friday, although part-time hours will be considered. Your base will be in Harlow, and you will be responsible for delivering highly specialised care from Family Hubs, nurseries and in families’ homes. This role is predominantly at Preschool age. As this is a community role it offers a desirable level of flexibility and work/life balance.
This role also offers the opportunity to take part in sessions within our autism assessment team, along with scope for work with school-age children.
You'll be joining our award-winning 'Good' Care Quality Commission-rated Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service (ECFWS), which we run in partnership with Barnardo's on behalf of Essex County Council and West Essex CCG. Our focus is on improving outcomes for both parents and children by addressing issue s such as isolation and loneliness. The Social Mobility Pledge campaign states that our ‘ECFWS should be used as an exemplar for improving health outcomes and social mobility up and down the country’ and we are proud of our association with this campaign.
Main Responsibility
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- To work with carers, the multidisciplinary team and the wider children’s workforce to provide a co-ordinated approach to children’s speech, language and communication needs
- To contribute to service development and key performance targets
- To provide information and advice about speech, language and communication development and access to speech and language therapy to other professionals and carers
- To work closely with clients, carers, families and the wider children’s workforce agreeing decision making and intervention relevant to the child’s management
- Implement service policies and procedures on a daily basis in own work area
We will invest in you throughout your career pathway and, so you’ll join a highly skilled, experienced, and qualified team.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have a degree or post graduate degree level qualification in Speech and Language Therapy. You will also be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council and Royal College of Speech and Language Therap.
Experience in paediatrics and a passion to improve the outcomes of children in the local community is essential along with access to a car for work purposes.
If you’d like to discuss the role further, please contact Rachel Double, Our Early Years Team Lead for Speech and Language Therapy via email: Rachel.double@hcrgcaregroup.com. We would strongly encourage contacting us to discuss the role and your interest.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Community Speech and Language Therapist, you’ll be part of our multi-disciplinary team in Harlow and will feel valued, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 6 2022/2023 salary 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 everyday 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 the 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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