Cygnet
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Post: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7 equivalent)
Salary: £50,632 – £57,940 per year (pro rata)
Hours: 32 hours per week / any 4 days per week
Contract: Permanent
Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new role?
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to undertake an exciting position as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist working in our North East residential services for adults with a learning disability and/or autism.
The post holder will hold a clinical caseload (3 days per week) at:
Hollyhurst, 118 Woodland Road, Darlington, County Durham, DL3 9LN
The post holder will also clinically supervise a full-time SLT working at the following residential services, inclusive of complex cases mentoring (1 day per week).
Oaklands, Anick Road, Hexham, Northumberland, NE46 4JR
Thornfield Grange, 60 Etherley Lane, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, DL14 7QZ
Our focus is on assessment, therapy, and outcomes, meaning you will get to spend lots of time with residents and staff doing exactly what you trained to do!
Job Role
As a highly specialized Speech and Language Therapist, you will be given the opportunity to excel your skills in leading on the delivery of an evidence-based SLT service to meet the needs of the complex client group. Working as part of the integrated multi-disciplinary team, you will use your expert skills and knowledge to train others, promote best practice, and embed positive and inclusive environments, with the ultimate aim of ensuring that people and their friends and families are true partners in their care. Clinical Supervision will be provided in-house and you will also be required to offer clinical supervision to a junior SLT working in 2 homes nearby (within the same Clinical MDT).
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You will be joining a team of over 50 SLTs working within Cygnet. The SLT department is well organized and structured by service line. You will implement the agreed clinical pathway for Social Care and contribute to annual service development reviews. We support student placements and if you have a specific area of clinical interest, there is also the opportunity for you to discuss this with our in-house Research & Development team. We welcome quality and service improvement projects and will support your career progression both personally and professionally.
You will be accountable to the Director of Speech and Language Therapy (Social Care) and the onsite Service Manager (Hollyhurst).
Postgraduate qualification in the management of dysphagia is desirable but not essential.
We are looking for a Speech and Language Therapist with:
- Experience in the field of Learning Disabilities including Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Knowledge of low tech/high tech AAC.
- Ability to assess and manage eating, drinking, and swallowing needs (desirable)
- Ability to supervise a junior SLT.
- Evidence of being a strong team player with a genuine desire to help others
- Ability to work flexibly in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Enthusiastic, motivated, and passionate.
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In Return We Offer
- Salary between £50,632 – £57,940 per year (pro rata)
- Excellent Clinical Supervision, CPD, and developmental opportunities
- An immediate peer network of SLTs working within Cygnet’s Social Care Division as well as the wider SALT Team.
- Full support from an onsite multidisciplinary team
- Routine service meetings with over 50 SLTs but also like-minded SLTs working in similar settings.
- Company pension and employee reward scheme including NHS discounts and much more!
- Full induction training
For more information on Speech and Language Therapy at Cygnet, please visit our page:
https://join.cygnetgroup.com/slt/
Successful candidates will need to meet the person specification in order to be offered this post. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks.
Please note this position may close early on receipt of sufficient applications.
For an informal discussion or to find out more, please contact Alma Matei, Recruiter on 07436 176 074 or Carla Bartlett, Director of SLT (Social Care) on 07803 248 026.
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