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HCRG Care Group

Band 6 Paediatric Dysphagia Speech & Language Therapist

Harlow
Posted 2 days ago
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Job Introduction

As a Band 6 Paediatric Dysphagia Speech & Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued team in Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

  • Band 6 salary with NHS Pension
  • AFC Pension and 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 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

We are looking for a permanent Band 6 Paediatric Dysphagia Speech & Language Therapist to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest.

You will join our award winning Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service, where we are trail blazing a new integrated partnership model with Barnardo’s; a model that drives efficiencies so we can put more people in our services, spending time with children and families to improve health outcomes in the local community.

Working in a diverse multidisciplinary team with other dedicated staff, you will benefit from the support of friendly and inclusive colleagues, with access to regular supervision and team meetings.

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Job Responsibilities

As a highly specialist dysphagia therapist in our Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service, you will:

  • Be responsible for leading our service provision in West Essex at universal, targeted and specialist levels.
  • Manage and develop the dysphagia service through leading on relevant projects and initiatives.
  • Provide highly specialist assessment and management of infants, children and young people aged 0-19 with dysphagia across community settings and in local specialist educational provisions.
  • Provide clinical supervision and line management to less experienced members of the team.
  • Work closely within the wider Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service including the Community Nursing Team, the Healthy Family Team, Paediatric Community Dietitian Service, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Services and Community Paediatricians as well as external colleagues and partners in Health, Education and Social Care.

For a full list of responsibilities, please see attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Have a degree qualification or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
  • Have post qualification training and experience in dysphagia.
  • Be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy.
  • Have access to regular clinical supervision and ongoing continued professional development including through access to external clinical networks.
  • Recognise and celebrate clinical excellence steered by evidence-based practice.
  • Training/experience with infant dysphagia is desirable

As this is a community role, it is essential that you hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes.

For a full list of criteria, please see the attached job description.

This role is flexible in terms of location, with the opportunity to work in the Uttlesford, Harlow or Epping Forest area.

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We’re happy to discuss options such as hybrid working, bank hours, or a welcome bonus for the right candidate stepping into a full-time Band 6 role.

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.

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Skills

Paediatric Dysphagia
Speech and Language Therapy
Clinical Supervision
Line Management
Patient Assessment
Multidisciplinary Teamwork
Case Management
Evidence-based Practice
Infant Dysphagia
Community Health Care

Location

Harlow, England, United Kingdom

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