Provide Community
Operational Lead, Adult Speech & Language Therapy (Community)
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Main area Speech and Language Therapy Grade Band 8a Contract Secondment: 6 months Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm) Job ref 828-PROVIDE4268
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Kestrel House Town Chelmsford Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/09/2026 23:59
Job Overview
Secondment Opportunity (6 months): Operational Lead – Adult Speech & Language Therapy Community
Are you ready to take the next step in your career and lead a team of highly skilled specialists? We're looking for a passionate, forward-thinking Operational Lead to oversee and drive excellence within the Adult Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) Community Service across the Collaborative (Provide, EPUT & NELFT).
What You’ll Bring
- Proven leadership experience in a healthcare or allied health setting.
- Expertise in Speech & Language Therapy, with a good understanding of adult community care.
- Exceptional communication and organisational skills, with the ability to inspire and manage diverse teams.
- A commitment to driving continuous improvement and delivering patient-centred outcomes.
Main duties of the job
As The Interim Operational Lead, You Will
- Lead & Inspire: Provide professional and clinical leadership for the Adult SLT Community team, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Manage & Develop: Take charge of line management, supporting team growth, and shaping a thriving, motivated workforce.
- Deliver Excellence: Ensure services are delivered safely, effectively, and efficiently within an agreed locality, making a tangible difference in the lives of those we serve.
- Collaborate & Innovate: Work across organisational boundaries with Provide, EPUT, and NELFT to enhance and streamline service delivery within the Collaborative framework.
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.
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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.
Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.
We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for a full list of the main responsibilities for this role. Thank you for taking the time to apply for a role within Provide.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- Masters degree
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience, in highly specialist (Band 7) roles
- Experience of line management and leadership
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills
- Ability to work as a team player
- Driving licence and access to a vehicle
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
If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.
Work Trials
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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 of 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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