Community Nursing

Job overview

Come and join our exciting and dynamic Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies Team

Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist ARP Development Post

We are recruiting a number of Speech and Language Therapists to join our Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies Service in Buckinghamshire. These posts are a result of exciting and innovative service developments following the recent recommissioning of the service in Buckinghamshire. The service is broadening it's offer to include speech and language therapy support to children and young people in the Additionally Resourced Provision settings in Buckinghamshire.

Main duties of the job

Some of these settings support children with Developmental Language Disorder and some support children with Social Communication needs. You will be offered the opportunity to experience both caseloads or focus on a particular area of need as part of a team. You will also gain experience in mainstream schools across key stages within a locality area of mainstream schools.

The Speech and Language Therapy Service forms part of an Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies Service working closely with Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy as well as wider children and young people’s services including Health Visitors, Community Nurses for Children with a Learning Disability, Community Paediatricians and School Nurses.

This is a jointly commissioned service across health and education that will give you the opportunity to be supported as you develop your speech and language therapy skills to support the delivery of high quality, evidence based interventions for children and young people in Buckinghamshire.

We have an excellent website which provides information and support to families and people working with children in Buckinghamshire and wider.

Working for our organisation

Why colleagues think we are

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Person specification

Education, qualifications and training

Essential criteria

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council Licence to Practice

Desirable criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Essential criteria

PPE requirements :   Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful  at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline : This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information : If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting : The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses : It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking : All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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