Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist

As a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 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 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 as 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

Join us as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist in our exciting SEND Therapy Service in West Essex. We are looking for a Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to work with early years and school-aged children, in their educational settings and their home, as part of our Special Educational Needs (SEND) Therapies team.

You will have the opportunity to work hybrid between visits to local schools and completing virtual sessions from home on a full or part-time basis. The role has core hours during school times (with the occasional out of hours for meetings with school staff or parents) with the option to complete your additional hours flexibly.

As you will be visiting local schools as part of your role, a driving license and access to a vehicle is essential.

Bulk of core clinical delivery to take place within school hours and education term dates, however service needs not to be exclusively term time only, with clinical and administrative work for school holiday periods to be discussed and agreed with SEND Therapies Manager. Post holder may be required to support Community Therapy service, if appropriate.

Caseload agreed with SEND Therapies manager, with time allocated for clinical delivery, training, travel, CPD, meetings and supervision, appropriate to role and geographical team.

Main Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To manage own delegated caseload of SEND children independently across a variety of predominantly educational settings.
• To work with parents/carers, education colleagues, the multidisciplinary team and the wider children’s workforce to provide a co-ordinated approach to children’s speech, language and communication needs, as part of their EHCP provision.
• To assess and formulate treatment plans in collaboration with parents, carers, schools and other professionals, write assessment reports, provide appropriate intervention and evaluate treatment outcomes.
• To support the service to meet key performance targets and contribute to agreed service development.
• To work in partnership with other agencies in order to meet local and national objectives as agreed with commissioners and SEND Therapies Manager.
• To supervise and allocate work to assistants, SLT students and less experienced therapists, when required.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a registered HCPC registration in Speech and Language Therapy
• Is registered with their professional body (Royal College of SLT)
• Has a driving licence and access to a vehicle
• Has a strong interest in the field of paediatric speech therapy

Experience with the following client groups is desirable:

• Hearing impairment
• Developmental Language Disorder
• Complex needs
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC), including Makaton, light-tech and high-tech AAC
• Autism, Down Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay

For any queries about the recruitment process of this role, please contact the hiring team via email at urvashi.bhardwaj@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 07884 659460.

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.

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