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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SEND)
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Main area Allied Health Professionals Grade Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
- Part time
- Job share
22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 828-PROVIDE4310
Employer: Provide CIC
Employer type: NHS
Site: Various sites, across Essex
Town: Chelmsford/Colchester
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/10/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible, and motivated speech and language therapist to help us support children and young people in a range of settings across Essex.
This Band 7 role involves coordinating, supporting, and delivering a high-quality, evidence-based service in a range of settings, predominantly within the clinical fields of complex needs and AAC. There are also opportunities to supervise and manage therapists, developing their skills, as well as therapy assistants.
Main duties of the job
- To lead on service delivery in designated settings
- To hold a highly specialist clinical caseload within these schools
- To supervise and line manage therapists and assistants
- To contribute to the planning and service delivery of the Therapies service
- To work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy team, as well as the wider multidisciplinary SEND Therapies team
Working for our organisation
Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive, and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.
We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes, and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families, and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia, and the North of England.
A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times.
Vision: Transforming Lives
Values: Care, Innovation, and Compassion
Mission: An ambitious, employee-owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring, and educating people.
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Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Eligible for NHS Pension
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
See attached job description.
- To lead on service delivery in designated schools
- To hold a highly specialist clinical caseload within these schools, predominantly in the clinical fields of complex needs and AAC
- To supervise and line manage band 5/6 therapist and speech and language therapy assistants
Person specification
Circumstances
Essential criteria:
- Ability to travel to a variety of sites
- Computer literate and able to use SystmOne
Qualifications
Essential criteria:
- Speech and Language degree
- Registered member of Health Professions Council
Knowledge
Essential criteria:
- Relevant in-depth clinical knowledge in the area of people with complex speech, language, and health needs
- Well-established knowledge of a wide range of conditions and treatments for children with complex speech, language, and communication difficulties
Desirable criteria:
- Knowledge of low and high-tech AAC methods
Further Information
How will we contact you?
All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net. If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
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Closing Date
Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.
Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?
If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination
Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.
We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID-19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.
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Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.
Disability
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We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices, and the National Living Wage.
Successful Applicant
You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.
The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.
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