We serve children and families across the West Essex area (Uttlesford, Harlow and Epping Forest), working in partnership with local communities, schools, and services to deliver responsive and accessible care.

As part of an integrated service, we work closely with a wide multidisciplinary team. We routinely liaise with consultant paediatricians, community nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, health visitors. The role also involves liaison with external services.

We are a supportive and collaborative team who value clinical excellence, curiosity, and reflective practice. We strive to create an environment where clinicians feel supported, valued, and able to develop their specialist skills while maintaining a healthy work–life balance.

Job Responsibilities

This is a community-based post, with the majority of clinical work taking place in service users’ homes and across mainstream and specialist educational settings. It is essential that you hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to a car for work purposes.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Providing highly specialist assessment, management, and intervention tailored to each child and family’s needs, supporting parents/carers, service users and all other professionals in all issues related to client management. Liaison with the MDT is an essential part of the role;
• Writing reports, including initial/progress/discharge reports, mealtime mats, EHCNAs;
• Supporting in the training and development of junior dysphagia therapists in the team;
• Delivering training/courses to other teams within the integrated service (e.g. Health visitors, family support workers);
• Contributing to developments within the dysphagia team/pathway and the wider service, and attending team meetings.

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

If you are a dysphagia-trained Speech & Language Therapist looking for a community-based specialist role where your expertise will make a real difference to children and families, we would love to hear from you.

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.

For any queries about the recruitment process of this role, please contact the hiring team via email at urvashi.bhardwaj@hcrgcaregroup.com or on 07884 659460.

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.

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