Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist - Fixed Term

Package Description:

As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued Children's Therapy Team in Surrey, 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

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive Paediatric Therapy Team. This is an exciting opportunity to work with children and young people who present with a wide range of speech, language, communication, and feeding needs, delivering high-quality, child-centred care within a multidisciplinary environment.

In this role, you will manage a general paediatric caseload, working with children who have varied and complex needs while accessing appropriate support, supervision, and professional development opportunities. Newly qualified therapists are welcomed and will be supported to develop towards autonomous practice through structured supervision, mentoring, and guidance from their line manager and experienced colleagues.

You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based interventions, devising individualised therapy programmes that place children and families at the centre of care. Through collaborative working with families, education staff, health professionals, and wider agencies, you will help children and young people develop, maintain, and maximise their communication potential and achieve meaningful outcomes.

Base

Our Children’s Community Health Team provision supports our Surrey-wide service, and you will be based at one of our Office Hubs across Surrey with the opportunity for hybrid working.

This position is a fixed-term role for 12 months.

Main Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritise a paediatric caseload, delivering high-quality, child-centred assessment, intervention, review, and discharge planning for children with a range of developmental and complex needs.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-based therapy programmes for individual children and groups across home, education, and community settings.
• Work collaboratively with children, families, carers, education staff, and multidisciplinary teams to agree goals, provide specialist advice, and promote positive outcomes.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information with empathy and professionalism, supporting families to understand and engage in their child’s therapy plan.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment, diagnosis, care planning, and referrals to ensure children’s wider needs are identified and addressed.
• Produce clear, accurate reports and maintain timely clinical records in line with professional, legal, and organisational standards.
• Provide clinical support, training, and guidance to students, parents/carers, and education staff, contributing to service development and therapy initiatives.
• Participate in supervision, continuing professional development, audit, research, and quality improvement activities to support personal and service growth.
• Effectively manage clinical risk, use sound clinical reasoning, seek support when required, and deputise for senior colleagues as appropriate.

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)
• Knowledge/training in ASD strategies and interventions e.g. PECS, SCERTS, ADOS
• Health and Care Professions Council Licence to Practice (HCPC)
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Member of relevant Clinical Excellence Network
• Specialist knowledge of assessments and interventions for client group
• Knowledge of national and local policies and procedures relevant to client group and role.
• Awareness of policies and procedures relating to Child Protection
• Experience of managing own caseload and to work effectively with a range of client groups

Desirable

• Knowledge /training in PCI, Hanen strategies.
• Knowledge/training in educational training packages e.g. ELKLAN, WellComm
• Knowledge/training in signing e.g. Makaton
• Demonstrable experience of working in the NHS
• Previous experience of working with children in the field of Speech and Language Therapy.
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relating to the post.
• Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups/Clinical excellence networks
• Training relating to the line management and supervision of assistants and other therapists.
• Experience of training parents, other therapists and other professionals

Other requirements: the successful applicant will need to be a car driver

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

For further information please contact Lisa on 07867373045

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.