Job Introduction
Make a Difference Every Day
As a newly qualified or early-career Speech and Language Therapist, you'll play a vital role in helping people communicate, eat, drink and swallow safely, improving independence, wellbeing and quality of life. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical skills within a supportive team while making a meaningful impact on patients and their families.
Location: Chippenham Community Hospital
Hours: 22.5 hours per week
As a Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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£32,073 - £39,043 FTE (Band 5 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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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
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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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
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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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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Support adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing disorders to maximise their independence, wellbeing and quality of life.
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Assess, prioritise and manage a diverse caseload, responding appropriately to complex, sensitive and unpredictable clinical and non-clinical situations.
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Deliver person-centred interventions for individuals with communication impairments, mental health needs, degenerative conditions, terminal illnesses and other complex presentations.
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Provide clear advice, guidance and practical communication strategies to patients, carers and other professionals to help individuals achieve their communication potential.
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Communicate complex, sensitive or challenging information with professionalism, empathy and compassion.
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Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies, contributing specialist advice and recommendations to support effective patient care.
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Build positive working relationships with healthcare professionals, carers and external stakeholders to ensure coordinated and seamless service delivery.
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Contribute to safe, high-quality clinical practice by maintaining accurate records and supporting evidence-based decision-making.
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Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or equivalent qualification).
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HCPC registration and eligibility to practise as a Speech and Language Therapist.
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Membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) with a commitment to continuing professional development.
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Knowledge of relevant national and local clinical guidelines.
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Ability to demonstrate empathy, support and reassurance when working with individuals with communication and/or swallowing difficulties, their families and carers.
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Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, openly and effectively with a range of audiences.
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High level of clinical assessment and diagnostic skills relevant to speech, language and swallowing disorders.
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Self-aware, professional and able to build positive working relationships.
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Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Forfull details of the role, responsibilities, and person specification, pleaserefer to the attached Job Description.
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. 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.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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