Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist

HCRG Care Group; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join their team in Swindon. The role involves delivering specialized care for adults with learning disabilities, ensuring high-quality service delivery through collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and a commitment to person-centered care.

Benefits

AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension

Membership of My Reward Hub

Access to wages as they are earned

Online and face to face help for wellbeing

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Free tea, coffee, and milk

Qualifications

• Holds necessary registration and professional qualifications.
• Experience working with clients with complex needs.
• Good assessment skills.

Responsibilities

• Delivering compassionate, outcome-focused services.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Maintaining accurate records and effective communication.

Skills

Assessment skills

Person-centered care

Willingness to travel

Education

Registered Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist with previous experience working within a Learning Disabilities service to join our small and welcoming multi-disciplinary Learning Disability and Autism team, primarily based in Swindon. This role supports adults with diagnosed learning disabilities whose needs cannot be met through mainstream services.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centered care and services to support individuals and teams. Working within a collaborative environment, you will provide essential services tailored to meet the unique needs of those we serve.

Some travel across the BSW patch may be required so willingness to travel and a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is essential.

Main Responsibility

The post-holder will work together in the team to provide comprehensive, specialist SLT services to culturally diverse service users with a learning disability, autism and co-occurring conditions. Service users will have complex needs, including mental health problems, physical health issues and may display distressed behaviours/ behaviours that challenge.

As a Speech and Language Therapist your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering compassionate, outcome-focused services in line with the role’s requirements.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to achieve key performance indicators and ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Identifying and addressing service needs at the earliest opportunity and implementing appropriate interventions.
• Working in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to enhance service effectiveness.
• Maintaining accurate records and ensuring effective communication with relevant parties.
• Adhering to professional standards, policies, and regulatory frameworks to support organizational goals.

For a full list of responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

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  Holds the necessary registration and professional qualifications and relevant registration
• Strong assessment and care planning skills
• Confident in leading meetings and working independently as well as part of a team
• Committed to promoting person-centred care and accessibility for all individuals
• Experience in working with clients where behaviours may be challenging
• Experience of working with clients with complex needs
• A full UK driving license with access to a vehicle and willingness to travel across the BSW patch
• Good assessment skills
• Knowledge of safeguarding

Package Description

As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group you’ll be part of our valued team based in Swindon.

You will feel valuedwithin HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• 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 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 a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

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.

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• Job Category HCRG - Allied Health Professionals