This is a fantastic opportunity to join our outstanding and innovative Speech and Language Therapy Team, working within Mid Essex. We are looking for a Band 5 therapist to work across a range of pathways, including speech, social communication, complex needs (including dysphagia if you have relevant experience) and language. The post holder will be supported to excel in working independently and enjoy delivering therapy to children and young people in a variety of settings.
The successful candidate will be supported by our well-respected and highly motivated team, and will have access to regular supervision, in-house training and whole-team meetings. If newly qualified, we will offer a perceptorship programme which not only develops competencies for the role, but instills feelings of confidence and belonging. Development of clinical leadership skills will also be supported.
We look forward to welcoming you as part of the team.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will hold an appropriate Speech and Language Therapy degree and be HCPC/RCSLT registered. They will be supported to work independently, as well as part of a team. They will have experience of working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties (which includes student placements). They will also provide training (in-person or virtually) to nursery and school staff and parents as required.
The post holder will offer support/work with our assistants and associate practitioners; contribute to discussions on proposed local clinical guidelines, protocols and care packages, and attend speech and language therapy team meetings, inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary meetings.
This post requires the therapist to engage with the child and family; liaise with nursery and school staff, and contribute to Educational Health and Care Plans when necessary. This post also requires the candidate to drive to various locations, predominantly, within Mid-Essex.
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.
A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties, Responsibilities and Key Relationships of the job
Operational or Strategic Responsibilities:
* To ensure the provision of a comprehensive speech, language and communication therapy services to children. This includes assessment; differential diagnosis; clinical decision making and provision of appropriate levels of intervention based on best practice.
* To provide training to nursery and school staff and parents as required.
* To adhere to quality guidelines and participate in service monitoring and clinical audit.
* To adhere to agreed administrative procedures for the service including the collection of statistical data.
* To adhere to the service plan and agreed protocols.
* To contribute to discussions on proposed local clinical guidelines, protocols and care packages.
* To develop lone working skills with supervision.
* To offer support to assistants and associate practitioners, and support volunteers and students and contribute to their development.
* To fulfill statutory requirements towards other agencies. This includes the provision of complex written reports for the statutory assessment process.
* To attend Speech and Language Therapy Departmental Team meetings, inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary meetings.
Person specification
* Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
* Experience working with multi-disciplinary team
* Training in therapy approaches, e.g. PECS, Attention Autism
* Knowledge of resources to support CYP with SLCN
* Licence to Practice Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Desirable
* Knowledge of resources to support CYP with SLCN
* Knowledge and experience delivering SLT interventions
FURTHER INFORMATION:
How will we contact you?
* All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
* As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
* If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
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Work Trials
Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.
We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant:
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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