Speech and Language Therapist

NHS; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading community health provider in Bath as a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist. This part-time role allows you to work flexibly while making a meaningful impact in the community by supporting adults with communication and swallowing difficulties. You will collaborate with a dedicated multidisciplinary team and benefit from exclusive rewards and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Access to My Reward Hub discounts

Flexible working from home

Access to mental and physical wellbeing support

Career coaching and counselling

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Registered with HCPC as a Speech and Language Therapist.
• Experience with conditions such as stroke and dementia.
• Exposure to community services highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Assessing and treating adults with communication or swallowing difficulties.
• Providing rehabilitation and therapy for both inpatients and outpatients.
• Advising and educating service users and their families.

Skills

Dysphagia

Therapy

Assessment

Education

HCPC registration

Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist, you will have the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team of colleagues who are skilled, dedicated, passionate and dynamic, who excel at providing the highest quality of services to service users, while continually developing the service and improving standards. This is apart-time opportunity working 22.5 hours per week between Monday - Friday with the ability to negotiate which days work best for you. You will also have the opportunity to work flexibly from home on agreed days.

Your base will be Sulis Ward at St Martin's Hospital in Bath where we deliver Speech and Language Therapy Services to all adults over 18 years of age with a communication or swallowing difficulty.

This is a fixed term post until April 2026with the possibility of extension.

Main duties of the job

Being based in the beautiful city of Bath, working at St Martins Hospital means you will be a stones throw from the Royal Crescent, Roman Baths and beautiful countryside.

Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Assessing and treating adults referred into the service for difficulties with their communication or swallowing.
• Providing rehabilitation and therapy for both inpatients and outpatients, based in the community.
• Providing advice, education and support to service users, their carers, family members and other staff, in order to promote a good understanding of the person's condition and how to support them, with a view to allowing the person to be able to self-manage their concerns as independently as possible.
• Jointly responsible for quality improvement and transformation projects and tasks within the teams, with the potential for supporting student Speech and Language Therapists.

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.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 well need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're 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 qualified Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in our Adult Speech and Language Therapy Community Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £29,970 - £36,483 (pro-rata) (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• 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 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

You will be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist with HCPC registration and experience working in adults services; exposure to community experience would also be highly regarded.

You will have experience of working with service users who have dysphagia, and with conditions such as stroke and dementia.

We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic speech and language therapists who are looking to make an impact to their local community.

Please respond to the essential and desirable criteria upon application.

If you have any questions about this job, please do not hesitate to contact Vicky Cooper [e-mail].

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.