Highly Specialist Speech Language Therapist - SEND Therapy

Package Description

As a Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Band 7 with Agenda for Change T&Cs including NHS pension
• 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 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

Job Introduction

Join us as a Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, in our SEND Therapy Service in West Essex.

We are looking for a Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to work with early years and school aged children, in their educational settings and their home, as part of our Special Educational Needs (SEND) Therapies team.

You will have the opportunity to work hybrid between visits to local schools and completing virtual sessions from home on a part time basis.

The role has core hours during school times (with the occasional out of hours for meetings with school staff or parents) with the option to complete your additional hours flexibly.

As you will be visiting local schools as part of your role, a driving license and access to a vehicle is essential

Main Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To work alongside our Community Therapies Team and support the therapy needs of children with Education and Health Care Plans.
• To will work with educational professionals (SENCOs, LSAs and teachers/parents and carers) in setting goals and implement Therapy plans, to integrate within their daily curriculum, as specified in the child’s EHCP. This will include direct work with children, attending Annual Review meetings, updating reports, writing care plans,  liaising with parents/carers and providing training, as appropriate.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a registered HCPC registration in Speech and Language Therapy
• Be a registered with their professional body (Royal College of SLT)
• Driving licence and access to vehicle

Experience with the following client groups is desirable:

• Hearing impairment;
• Developmental Language Disorder;
• Complex needs
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC), including Makaton, light-tech and high-tech AAC;
• Autism, Down Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay.

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. 

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