Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SEND)

Provide Community; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Job summary

Provide Community is seeking an enthusiastic, flexible Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to support children and young people across Essex in diverse settings.

You will lead service delivery, manage a highly specialist caseload in schools, and supervise therapists and assistants while collaborating with the wider SEND Therapies team to enhance patient outcomes and service quality.

Qualifications

• Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist with experience in complex needs and AAC.
• Experience supervising therapists and therapy assistants.
• Strong planning and service delivery skills within multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead service delivery in designated settings.
• Hold a highly specialist clinical caseload in schools.
• Supervise and line manage therapists and assistants.
• Contribute to planning and service delivery of Therapies service.
• Collaborate with the Speech and Language Therapy team and wider SEND Therapies team.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Clinical caseload

AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Comm

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and motivated speech and language therapist to help us support children and young people in a range of settings across Essex.

This Band 7 role involves co-ordinating, supporting and delivering a high quality, evidence based service in a range of settings, predominantly within the clinical fields of complex needs and AAC. There are also opportunities to supervise and manage therapists, developing their skills, as well as therapy assistants.

• To lead on service delivery in designated settings
• To hold a highly specialist clinical caseload within these schools.
• To supervise and line manage therapists and assistants
• To contribute to the planning and service delivery of the Therapies service
• To work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy team, as well as the wider multi disciplinary SEND Therapies team.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision

Transforming Lives

Values

Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission

An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups.

Eligible for NHS Pension

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lorraine Hutchingson Job title: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07976 539301