Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly team in our 0-19 Service.

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of school-aged children? Do you want to work in a forward-thinking, multidisciplinary team where your professional development is a priority? We’re looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist to provide speech and language therapy support to pre-school and school age children with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties and their families, within the Wiltshire community.

Key Responsibilities:

• To work independently, with responsibility and accountability to manage and prioritise caseloads of pre-school and school aged children with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties in the community.
• To offer assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s communication difficulties through use of formal and informal assessment, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents and other professionals involved in their care.
• To produce reports reflecting clinical knowledge regarding clients’ needs and summarising proposed care plans/target sheets for parents, carers, setting staff, and other professional colleagues, based on evidence. This may include production of reports for education, health and care plans.
• To manage ongoing care as per service clinical care pathways.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.

Your base will be:

• Derby Court, Trowbridge, BA14 0XG.

This is a Fixed-Term contract, working Term Time Only for 1 year.

Package Description

As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our 0-19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 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

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 - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

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.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so 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.

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