Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist

As a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex. You will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions. You will have a membership of My Reward Hub, which gives you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers. You will also have access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high-interest rates. Support is available for mental and physical wellbeing through online and face-to-face help, from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt, and life management help. Career coaching and counselling are also available. Continuous professional development opportunities are provided through eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise. An open, just culture encourages you to have and implement ideas.

As a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

Join us as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, in our exciting SEND Therapy Service in West Essex.

We are looking for a Childrens Speech and Language Therapist to work with early years and school aged children, in their educational settings and their home, as part of our Special Educational Needs (SEND) Therapies team.

You will have the opportunity to work hybrid between visits to local schools and completing virtual sessions from home on a full or part time basis. The role has core hours during school times (with the occasional out of hours for meetings with school staff or parents) with the option to complete your additional hours flexibly.

As you will be visiting local schools as part of your role, a driving license and access to a vehicle is essential

Bulk of core clinical delivery to take place within school hours and education term dates, however service needs not to be exclusively term time only, with clinical and administrative work for school holiday periods to be discussed and agreed with SEND Therapies Manager. Post holder may be required to support Community Therapy service, if appropriate.

Caseload agreed with SEND Therapies manager, with time allocated for clinical delivery, training, travel, CPD, meetings and supervision, appropriate to role and geographical team.

Main ResponsibilitiesYour key responsibilities will be: - To manage own delegated caseload of SEND children independently across a variety of predominantly educational settings.

The Ideal CandidateWe are looking for someone who: - Has a registered HCPC registration in Speech and Language Therapy

Experience with the following client groups is desirable:

For any queries about the recruitment process of this role, please contact the hiring team via email at urvashi.bhardwaj@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 07884 659460.

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. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

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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. We work 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, MSK services, and 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 we welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are a Disability Confident Committed company, providing facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

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