Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

We are looking for a motivated, compassionate, and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapy Assistant (SLTA) to join our Children's Speech and Language Therapy team. This is an exciting opportunity to support children and young people (CYP) with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN), helping them to achieve their communication potential through high-quality, person-centred intervention.

As a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant, you will provide regular intervention for CYP by delivering therapy programmes devised by a qualified Speech and Language Therapist (SLT). You will play a key role in developing the skills and confidence of the Team Around the Child (TAC), enabling communication strategies to be embedded across everyday environments. You will maintain accurate and timely records of children's progress, provide administrative support to the clinical work of SLTs, and contribute to the effective delivery of the service.

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

We have 2 part-time roles available working 25 & 26 hours per week.

Flexible hours: We're open to discussing working hours to help you balance work with family or other personal commitments.

Base: High Post, Technology House, High Post Business Park, Salisbury, SP4 6AT. The role will include visits to numerous educational settings mostly in the south Wiltshire area during the working week.

The ideal candidate will have -

Essential:

• Minimum GCSE grade 4 or C in English & Maths or NVQ level in relevant field
• Minimum two years’ experience working with children
• Ability to learn as demonstrated by previous education/qualifications.
• Have relevant and practical work experience related to the clinical area of this post, demonstrating an awareness of client needs and likely service issues.
• Have an excellent standard of spoken and written English.
• Have a high level of self-motivation and enthusiasm.
• Show an ability to be organised and manage own time efficiently.
• Be able to on occasions cope with and appropriately manage the emotional consequences of working with patients with distressing conditions, or in challenging situations.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills including the ability to listen well and show empathy as well as be able to deal with difficult/sensitive situations.
• Have a willingness to learn and develop.
• Be able to communicate clearly, directly and honestly, in an open manner.
• Have a good awareness of self and of others.
• Good skills with IT.
• Demonstrate ability to document details clearly and accurately.

Desirable:

• Knowledge or experience of working with children with speech, language and communication needs
• Full UK Driving Licence and access to a vehicle

Package Description

As a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team based at High Post. You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £25,500 - £27,098 Pro Rata with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• 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

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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