Job Introduction
As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist, you will have the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team of colleagues who are skilled, dedicated, passionate and dynamic, who excel at providing the highest quality of services to service users, while continually developing the service and improving standards. This is a part-time opportunity working 22.5 hours per week between Monday - Friday with the ability to negotiate which days work best for you. You will also have the opportunity to work flexibly from home on agreed days.
Your base will be Sulis Ward at St Martin's Hospital in Bath where we deliver Speech and Language Therapy Services to all adults over 18 years of age with a communication or swallowing difficulty.
This is a fixed term post until April 2026 with the possibility of extension.
Main Responsibility
Being based in the beautiful city of Bath, working at St Martin’s Hospital means you will be a stones throw from the Royal Crescent, Roman Baths and beautiful countryside.
Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Assessing and treating adults referred into the service for difficulties with their communication or swallowing.
- Providing rehabilitation and therapy for both inpatients and outpatients, based in the community.
- Providing advice, education and support to service users, their carers, family members 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 independently as possible.
- Jointly responsible for quality improvement and transformation projects and tasks within the teams, with the potential for supporting student Speech and Language Therapists.
The Ideal Candidate
You will be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist with HCPC registration and experience working in adults services; exposure to community experience would also be highly regarded.
You will have experience of working with service users who have dysphagia, and with conditions such as stroke and dementia.
We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic speech and language therapists who are looking to make an impact to their local community.
Please respond to the essential and desirable criteria upon application.
If you have any questions about this job, please do not hesitate to contact Vicky Cooper at vicky.cooper@hcrgcaregroup.com.
Package Description
As a qualified Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Speech and Language Therapy Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £29,970 - £36,483 (pro-rata) (Band 5 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 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.
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