Job Introduction
Are you passionate about helping people to communicate and achieve their potential? We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Assistant Practitioner to join our friendly Speech and Language Therapy team.
You will support the children’s speech and language therapy service to provide high quality of care through assessment and therapy intervention for children and young people in nursery and school settings in Wiltshire.
We have 2 part-time roles available working 30 hours per week, term time only.
Flexible hours: We're open to discussing working hours to help you balance work with family or other personal commitments.
Base - Derby Court, Trowbridge, BA14 0XQ
Main Responsibilities:
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To independently devise and implement specialised treatment programmes for children with a wide range of complex speech, language and communication difficulties, with access to supervision by qualified speech and language therapists.
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To be responsible for assessing the effectiveness of interventions in meeting the required outcomes and making necessary modifications within personal scope of practice and based on evidence.
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To work unsupervised in a range of community/specialist settings implementing programmes, monitoring intervention, undertaking formal and informal assessment procedures, providing feedback and suggestions for potential changes to the responsible therapist.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
The ideal candidate will have -
Essential:
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Educated to diploma level or equivalent
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Good interpersonal skills – including observation, listening and empathy skills
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Negotiation and problem solving skills
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Demonstrates ability to be a good team member including working with other agencies
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Prioritisation skills
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Well-developed concentration skills
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Good presentation skills both written and verbal
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Good organisational skills and ability to work independently
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Prioritisation skills
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Experience working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties
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Experience of working independently to deliver packages of care
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Experience of developing relationships with staff from other agencies/organisations
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Knowledge of Makaton
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Experience of working within mainstream and/or specialist education provision.
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Experience of delivering training
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Valid UK Driving License in order to carry out duties of the post
Desirable:
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Knowledge of Makaton
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Experience of working within mainstream and/or specialist education provision.
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Experience of delivering training
Package Description
As an Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Derby Court. You will feel valued as a Assistant Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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A salary of £27,674 - £30,557 Pro Rata with access to our group pension
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Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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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
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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
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.
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.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
