Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapist
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Come and join our exciting and dynamic Children and Young People’s Therapies Team
Speech and Language Therapist Band 5
Are you looking for your first post to begin your career?
Are you looking for a new band 5 experience?
If so, come and join a supportive and dynamic Integrated Children and Young People’s Therapies team in Buckinghamshire who are dedicated to move you through your first year competencies and beyond.
We have a strong commitment to supporting our newly qualified band 5 therapists to develop your clinical and professional skills both face to face and via teletherapy in order to achieve your competencies within your first year.
All Staff Receive
- A comprehensive induction supported by the Team Lead
- A 2 year Trust Preceptorship programme to develop professional confidence, skills, values and behaviours to continue on a journey of lifelong learning within Bucks
- Regular clinical supervision, one to one and peer groups focused to newly qualified and band 5s
- Access to a variety of CPD sessions on specific clinical areas supported by Clinical Leads
- Clinical and caseload discussions with senior colleagues
- Coaching, mentoring and access to external courses
- Attendance at regional and national CEN meetings
The post is locality team based in Amersham and the Chiltern South Bucks area. If you are a newly qualified therapist, you would be given a mainstream school aged caseload for 4 days of your week, alongside 1 day CPD to develop competencies and shadowing for the first year with the aim to develop interests in different parts of the service. Caseload allocations are capped to allow NQTs the ability to acquire necessary competencies within the first year.
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This is a jointly commissioned service that will give you the opportunity to use your innovative and dynamic SLT skills to influence the delivery of high quality, evidence-based interventions for children and young people in Buckinghamshire.
We use a wide variety of evidence-based therapy approaches with children. Therapy is delivered individually, in groups or flexibly as the child and setting require.
Award-winning and evidence-based programmes by Speech and Language Link are commissioned to every mainstream school setting across Buckinghamshire and supports a graduated approach to therapy delivery alongside our school advice sessions and webinars.
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
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Why work for us?
We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Natasha Patel
- Job title: Speech and Language Therapy Schools Team Lead
- Email address: natasha.patel34@nhs.net
Jennifer Corder
Speech and Language Therapy Service Operational Lead for School Age
07816451912
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