Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join us as part of an externally funded project team in key geographical locations across B&NES.

**If you are an existing Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist with early years experience eager to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you**

**This is a flexible full or part time position. Preference of working days and hours can be discussed at interview stage.**

Collaborating with partners like The St John's Foundation and BANES Early Years Advisory Service, you'll help plan, execute, and evaluate the project's next phase. With almost three years of successful independent evaluation, the project now aims to expand its reach.

As part of a small team, you'll provide training and support to Nursery and Reception staff, focusing on implementing the WellComm toolkit and fostering language-rich environments. Your responsibilities also include identifying Communication Champions within settings and facilitating their training for sustained project success, alongside data collection and outcome evaluation.

Main Responsibilities
Working collaboratively with colleagues across health and education services, you will be responsible for:

- Collaborative planning, implementation and evaluation of the project
- Implementing, supporting and training Early Years Practitioners in the use of the Wellcomm toolkit Strengthening the early identification of needs and support within the targeted settings
- Upskilling the early years workforce during the period of the project
- Helping to identify a communication champion within each targeted setting and offering enhanced training and support
- Engaging families of children identified as needing additional support and offering parent/carer workshops to improve confidence and awareness of strategies and activities to support their child’s needs
- Working with the independent evaluation partner to monitor and evaluate impact of project

**Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.**
- A qualified Speech and Language Therapist
- Early Years Experience
- Strong communication and organisation skills
- Flexible approach to ensure you deliver positive experiences to children and young people and their families.
- Confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

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.

Package Description
You will feel valued as a **Specialist Speech and Language Therapist **with HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

- **A salary of £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions**:

- 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 ring fenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission