Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Job Introduction

HCRG Care Group Speech and Language Therapy team are currently recruiting to our schools-based service. The Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service is based at St Martins Hospital working within a range of health and education settings across Bath and North East Somerset, including;
**Community Clinics in St Martins Hospital, Keynsham Health Centre and Paulton Hospital**

**BaNES early years settings**

**BaNES mainstream Schools**

**Colleges**

**Specialist education provision settings**

**Alternative education provision settings**

**Youth Offending Service**

You would be working as part of a friendly and supportive team who meet regularly, and offer a broad range of experience and expertise. We have a robust supervision structure to ensure every therapist can meet their full potential and achieve their learning goals. As a team we are committed to providing a high quality service with children and young people at the heart of our service delivery.

Main Responsibilities**Main Responsibilities**

Working collaboratively with colleagues across health and education service, you will be responsible for:

- Assessment and differential diagnosis of a child’s speech, language, and communication needs
- Working directly with children and young people with a wide range of speech, language, and communication difficulties
- Providing advice regarding the management and care of children with speech, language, and communication difficulties including training for families and professionals
- Communication about complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families, and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions
- Ensuring patients and their parents/carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care
- Demonstrating clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures
- Managing and prioritising complex caseloads
- Delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work to ensure Service Users and their families receive the best care possible.
- This post demands excellent communication and organisational skills. There will be opportunities for you to devise and deliver training and to provide specialist support and advice to parents/carers and the wider children’s workforce.

We offer a supportive and friendly environment with opportunities for continued professional development. Mentoring and supervision structures are in place and there is regular contact with the larger team. The successful applicants will be given a full induction programme.

You will be a qualified Speech and Language Therapist who has strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach to ensure you deliver positive experiences to children and young people and their families.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

**To find out more information about our current vacancies and career opportunities, please contact Stuart Cook, Team Lead, Schools Service for the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service on 01225 831708**

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 by our Chief Executive Dr Vivienne McVey and like-minded colleagues, 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.

From around 500 locations 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.

As a Disability Confident Committed company, we work in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to make our business an inclusive place for all.

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From 11 November 21, as a result of new legislation, anyone over the age of 18 who enters a Care Home as part of their job must have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccination or hold a valid medical exemption. As part of our pre-employment process we will therefore ask you to provide:

- proof of your vaccination status via the NHS Covid Pass (either electronically or via the PDF)
- A signed copy of the temporary medical exemption form. Fur