Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist

NHS; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join their team in Bath. The role involves managing a caseload of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties. Candidates should have a degree in Speech and Language Therapy and relevant experience. Benefits include a salary of £37,338, NHS Pension, hybrid working opportunities, and ongoing professional development support.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Flexible working hours

Access to professional development

Discount membership

Mental health support

Qualifications

• Experience managing caseloads independently.
• Specialised skills in dysphagia and aphasia interventions.
• Ability to work within multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload providing Speech and Language Therapy.
• Assess and diagnose communication and swallowing difficulties.
• Develop and implement treatment plans and discharge plans.

Skills

Evidence-based practice

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Assessment and diagnosis

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Whether you are a dedicated Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist or a passionate and experienced Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist looking to progress, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy team in BaNES!

The Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Service provides inpatient and outpatient services to adults living within Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) and aims to maximise long term independence, choice, and quality of life, by allowing patients to leave hospital earlier, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and reduce or minimise the need for on-going support after the period of intervention, improving quality of life.

The Speech and Language Therapy Service are a supportive and innovative team who like to keep on top of evidence-based practice and new techniques for intervention. We benefit from having a professional lead to ensure quality standards for our service are kept high, and we pride ourselves on keeping ahead of the game wherever possible. We embrace change, are highly supportive and actively seek opportunities to improve our skills and expertise in order to provide the best possible service for our clients.

As an organisation, we aim to support a healthy work life balance by offering hybrid working. Your main base location will be St Martins Hospital in Bath with some opportunity to work from home.

This is a fixed-term opportunity (12 months to cover maternity leave).

Main duties of the job

The role will involve:

• Independently managing a caseload and providing skilled and specialised evidence based Speech and Language Therapy to adults with a wide range of communication and swallowing difficulties in a variety of settings
• Engaging with the services triage system, to ensure referrals are managed in a time effective way and service users are given the best advice, as quickly as possible
• Assessing and differentially diagnosing service users complex communication and swallowing difficulties, developing and implementing clear treatment plans, including comprehensive discharge plans from the service
• Providing evidence-based interventions, including intensive dysphagia and aphasia intervention
• Providing advice, training and education to others regarding the management and care of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties
• Demonstrating high levels of communication skills with service users, their families, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Providing supervision as required
• Providing support to our Speech and Language Therapy Assistant
• Assisting with managing waiting lists
• Referring for videofluoroscopy examinations

Please refer to the attached job description for a full list of role responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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 are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist in the Community service, youll be part of our valued team based at St Martin's Hospital in Bath.

You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £37,338 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Person Specification

General Requirements

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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.