This is an exciting opportunity for a recently qualified Speech and Language Therapist to develop their skills and experience within the field of adults. The SLT will join our friendly and dynamic team working with adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing in the community, including wards in an intermediate care setting. The SLT will have access to supervision and support. CPD opportunities will also be offered. This post would provide a valuable opportunity to develop and consolidate your skills in a wide variety of adult acquired conditions including stroke and long-term conditions. Dysphagia experience is desirable.
Enquiries can be made to: Helen Noble Head of Speech and Language Therapy (Community Adult Services)
h.noble@nhs.net
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a recently qualified Speech and Language Therapist to develop their skills and experience within the field of adults. The SLT will join our friendly and dynamic team working with adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing in the community, including wards in an intermediate care setting. The SLT will have access to supervision and support. CPD opportunities will also be offered. This post would provide a valuable opportunity to develop and consolidate your skills in a wide variety of adult acquired conditions including stroke and long-term conditions. Dysphagia experience is desirable.
Main duties of the job
With appropriate support from designated and more experienced SLT, be an autonomous practitioner ie, have responsibility and accountability for own caseload of open referrals, requiring admission, treatment and discharge decisions, within own level of competence and professional and service parameters. Assess and analyse type, severity and impact of all conditions of speech, language, communication and within own competency-level swallowing impairments in a wide age range of patients. This will be through a variety of formal and informal assessments and information gathering methods; with a high level of support from designated SLT clinical supervisor. Use and analyse results of some formal standardised assessments and, with support, able to analyse and interpret results in relation to theoretical and clinical knowledge of individual patients. Use and develop further sensory skills.
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist, you'll be part of our valued team based in the SLT department at The Swindon Intermediate Care Centre.
You will feel valued as a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* AFC Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Working for an organisation that has been shortlisted at the 2024 Nursing Times Awards in the Public Health Nursing category
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 most of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
* Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Minimum Requirements
* Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or equivalent qualification)
* Licence to practice from Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
* Registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
* Relevant experience working with adults during student placements.
* Knowledge of the use of some formal assessments of speech and language.
* Empathy and support skills for individuals with communication and/or swallowing impairment.
* Good standard of spoken and written English language.
Person Specification
General Requirements
Essential
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
HCRG Care Group
Address
HCRG Care Group
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN3 6BW
Employer's website
https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/
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