Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist (Fixed-Term Contract)

Make a lasting difference by helping adults communicate with confidence, dignity, and independence.

In this role, you will deliver highquality Speech and Language Therapy to service users within the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Service in BaNES. You will be an active and committed member of both the local and wider SLT community, contributing to a culture of learning and professional excellence. Working closely with service users, their families, carers, and multidisciplinary teams, you will empower individuals to understand their condition, build confidence, and increase self management. Through your work, you will help improve quality of life, participation, and independence for every person you support.

• Independently assess and diagnose complex communication and swallowing difficulties across a range of settings.
• Deliver evidence based interventions, including intensive dysphagia and aphasia therapy.
• Manage an independent caseload, providing skilled, person centred interventions for adults with communication needs arising from a variety of acquired neurological conditions.
• Triage and prioritise new referrals, offering timely advice to referrers and making appropriate decisions about ongoing care and management.
• Provide training, advice, and education to colleagues, carers, and other professionals on supporting adults with communication and swallowing needs.
• Use outcome measures effectively to demonstrate clinical progress and support service performance.
• Communicate clearly and compassionately with service users, families, carers, and multidisciplinary teams to support self management and enhance quality of life.
• Be an active, valued member of the team, contributing to a positive culture and maintaining strong connections across the wider healthcare system.
• Maintain up to date clinical skills and knowledge, engaging in ongoing professional development and completing all required mandatory training.
• Supervise junior staff or students where appropriate, and take part in regular supervision as per service guidelines.
• Participate fully in team meetings and contribute to service development and shared objectives.

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 are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We are 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 may 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.

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Package Description

• £38,682 - £46,580 Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as 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 emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face support 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 as 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 that 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 the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Qualifications and experience required:

• At least 2 years experience as a qualified Speech and Language Therapist.
• Recognised degree or clinical qualification in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Registered with HCPC and RCSLT.
• Recognised dysphagia qualification or accredited training (Level B dysphagia competence or above).
• Experience independently managing a busy caseload and triaging referrals appropriately.
• Experience working in community settings or similar environments, supporting adults with a range of acquired neurological conditions.
• Competent in a wide range of communication and swallowing assessments and treatments, following current best practice guidelines.
• Experience assessing mental capacity and supporting individuals with significant communication difficulties to make decisions wherever possible.
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience providing training and support to family members or carers around communication and/or eating, drinking, and swallowing.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including good IT skills, organisational ability, and the ability to prioritise effectively.
• Experience recognising and raising safeguarding concerns, with appropriate support.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Confident presenting to a range of audiences.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.
• Experience supervising other professionals or students.
• Awareness of the wider healthcare environment, including current challenges and system changes.
• Training or qualifications in leadership, people management, or change management.
• Experience in videofluoroscopy and relevant competencies.

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.