Speech and Language Therapist

Psicon Ltd; Canterbury; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join their management team in Canterbury. This pivotal role combines clinical and managerial responsibilities, ensuring high-quality services for clients with neurodevelopmental conditions like ASD and ADHD. You will lead a diverse team of clinicians, providing guidance and support while maintaining professional responsibility for quality assessments. The organization values its employees and offers a vibrant work environment with opportunities for growth and development. Join a team that prioritizes trust, integrity, and collaboration to achieve exceptional healthcare outcomes.

Benefits

Enhanced annual leave of 32 days

Flexible annual leave scheme

Well-being days

Pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Birthday lie in

Free breakfast

Funded social events

Staff well-being bursary scheme

Qualifications

• Significant experience in assessing autism and ADHD.
• Ability to support teams in delivering high-quality services.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and guidance to support clinician effectiveness.
• Conduct clinical audits and maintain quality assessments.

Skills

Assessment of neurodevelopmental conditions

Team leadership

Clinical management

Understanding of NHS healthcare systems

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

About Us

Psicon is a specialist neurodevelopmental service working both privately and with various NHS trusts to provide autism and ADHD assessments. We are an independent organisation, but most of our work is for the NHS, whom we are proud to support. Assessments are carried out by our team of associate clinicians from a range of clinical backgrounds, in satellite clinics across the country and remotely. Psicon is committed to offering the best psychological support and healthcare available. We take an innovative approach to the delivery of our services and ensure that they are of the highest standards in the industry.

About The Role

We are seeking experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join our growing management team. This pivotal role combines managerial and clinical responsibilities to ensure the delivery of excellent services for clients with neurodevelopmental conditions such as ASD and ADHD. You will work with and support a range of different clinicians from associate doctors, clinical psychologists, speech and language specialists and occupational therapists.

Principle duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• To provide general leadership and guidance to support clinician effectiveness across designated Psicon services
• To assist in the recruitment of associate clinicians through conducting clinical screening calls and trial clinics.
• To offer your team of associate clinicians’ guidance on day to day running of the clinics.
• To maintain professional responsibility for the provision of quality assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD & / or ADHD) across a range of clinical models.
• To hold a clinical advisory role to support associate clinicians in the provision of excellent ND assessments.
• To adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of clinical sessions carried out per week, 2 or 3 days a week in our Canterbury clinic sites.
• Carry out clinical audits of service performance, including service user surveys and evaluations, and help to collate and disseminate the results for feedback.
  
  

Person Specification

• Highly skilled clinician with significant experience in the assessment and management of neurodevelopmental conditions – autism and / or ADHD.
• Proven ability to support a team in the delivery of high-quality services to children and families.
• Understanding of private and NHS healthcare structure / systems / pathways across the UK (e.g. NHS England, ICBs, NHS trusts)
• Ability to recognise all significant events, relevant clinical issues and difficulties and report these to the Clinical Management Team
• Be available in our Canterbury clinic, working in a hybrid model.
• Candidates will also be asked to provide "on call" clinical support to the weekend teams.
  
  

Working at Psicon

We value our employees as an integral part of our service delivery and believe in recruiting and investing in the best employees. We pride ourselves in providing our employees with the opportunities and resources to achieve their potential. We are keen to provide a vibrant, fun yet challenging working environment for our team who share in our core values of trust, integrity, commitment and kindness and work collaboratively to achieve our company goals of;

• The best possible customer service.
• The most efficient and effective clinical work.
• A thriving and engaged workforce.
• A truly inclusive organisation.
  
  

Benefits Include

• Enhanced annual leave of 32 days a year (inclusive of bank holidays).
• Flexible annual leave scheme providing the ability to buy or sell back additional days.
• Well-being days.
• Pension scheme (with the option of enhancing via salary sacrifice).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Birthday lie in.
• Free breakfast, including 'pastry Mondays'.
• Funded social events.
• Staff well-being bursary scheme.
  
  

Additional Information / Contacting Us

• For further information please email [e-mail] or call the Psicon Recruitment Team on 01227 202155 for more information.
• Should you wish to discuss any reasonable adjustments or assistance you might need in the application or interview process, please contact our Recruitment Team and we will do our best to support you.
• Please note, Psicon operate a ‘safer recruitment’ policy and will require candidates to undergo full referencing (covering a 3-year period), an enhanced DBS check, provide evidence of up-to-date mandatory training, the right to live and work in the UK.