Senior Speech & Language Therapist - Surrey

HCRG Care Group; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking an experienced Senior Speech & Language Therapist to enhance children's communication skills. This position offers the flexibility of hybrid working, allowing you to provide tailored support and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and a passion for delivering high-quality care.

Benefits

Hybrid working options

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Evidence of relevant post-graduate training.

Responsibilities

• Provide accessible therapy programmes to children.
• Conduct and interpret complex assessments.
• Plan and manage therapy services.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Communication skills

Empathy

Clinical reasoning

Education

Speech and Language Therapy degree or equivalent

Health and Care Professions Council Licence to Practice

Job description

Overview

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. You will work closely with children, their families, carers, and professionals across the wider children’s workforce to deliver tailored support and guidance. 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 Responsibilities

• 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.
• Prioritise and manage caseloads, respond to urgent referrals, and deputise for Band 7 as required.

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)
  • 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 packages (e.g., ELKLAN, WellComm)
  • Knowledge/training in signing (e.g., Makaton)
  • Knowledge/training in ASD strategies and interventions (e.g., PECS, SCERTS, ADOS)
  • Demonstrable NHS experience
  • Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver

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. 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.

Safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance. 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. By applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you; for details see our privacy policy on the website.