Speech and Language Therapist

Package Description:
An exciting opportunity to build your career as a 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 Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated service.

You will deliver high quality care to children with eating, drinking and swallowing (EDS) difficulties from 0-19 years at home, pre-school and school settings 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 part-time role working 22.5 hours per week.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assessment and differential diagnosis of a childs communication difficulties through the use of standardised assessments, reflection of auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of a childs 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.

The ideal candidate will have:

Essential:

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council Licence to Practice
• Knowledge and experience of working with children with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties
• 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 Makaton
• 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

Package Description
As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, 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 lifes 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 youre 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.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.