Bank Senior Speech in Chertsey

Are you an experienced Speech & Language Therapist ready to make a meaningful impact in children's lives? Join HCRG Care Group as a Senior Speech & Language Therapist, where you'll provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and evidence-based interventions for children with complex speech, language, and communication needs. In this pivotal role, you will work closely with children, their families, carers, and professionals across the wider children's workforce to deliver tailored support and guidance. Your expertise will empower children to overcome challenges, achieve their potential, and enhance their quality of life. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality, child-centred care and working collaboratively within a supportive and dynamic environment, we'd love to hear from you.

Base: You will be based at one of our Surrey-wide office hubs, with the flexibility of hybrid working to support your professional and personal needs. At HCRG Care Group, we are proud to be a flexible-first employer. Our agile working approach allows our teams to thrive in a supportive and adaptable environment while delivering high-quality care.

Main duties of the job:

• Carrying out high-quality school based assessments, as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) for children and young people.
• Provide support, advice, and accessible therapy programmes to children, families, and carers, adapting communication for understanding.
• Share and receive complex and sensitive information regarding children's difficulties, progress, and expectations.
• Attend, arrange, and contribute specialist advice in multidisciplinary meetings.
• Plan, organise, and manage therapy services, including supervision, appraisals, and training of staff, students, and parents/carers.
• Deliver and adapt therapy interventions, both individual and group, across home, clinic, and education settings, ensuring evidence-based practice.
• Conduct and interpret complex assessments, contribute to diagnoses, identify therapy goals, and make referrals where needed.
• Maintain accurate written and electronic records, reports, and documentation in line with professional and organisational standards.
• Demonstrate empathy and sensitivity in supporting families adjusting to their child's condition.
• Apply clinical reasoning to assess needs, develop and adapt therapy/management plans, evaluate outcomes, and ensure best practice.
• Participate in service development, audits, and research projects to enhance clinical practice.
• Maintain professional development, reflect on practice, and comply with HCPC and professional body requirements.

About us:

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.

The Ideal Candidate:

Essential:

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent (Post Graduate Diploma or MSc in Speech and Language Therapy leading to registration with HCPC).
• Knowledge/training in ASD strategies and interventions e.g. PECS, SCERTS, ADOS.
• Health and Care Professions Council Licence to Practice (HCPC).
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Member of relevant Clinical Excellence Network.
• Evidence of relevant post graduate training, internal or external.

Desirable:

• Knowledge/training in PCI, Hanen strategies.
• Knowledge/training in educational training packages e.g. ELKLAN, WellComm.
• Knowledge/training in signing e.g. Makaton.
• Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS.

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver.