Band 7 Speech and Language Therapy Team Lead

Band 7 Speech and Language Therapy Team Lead

We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist as a Clinical Team Leader for the Adult Acquired Team, to cover the current post holders maternity cover for 12 months. This post is currently based at Chippenham Hospital predominantly covering the North of the county, but also with the requirement to travel to a variety of community settings across Wiltshire. Specialist knowledge in a wide variety of adult acquired conditions, especially complex neurological conditions and stroke is essential.

We are an extremely friendly and supportive Department which has an excellent system of supervision and mentoring.

Main duties of the job

You will work as Team Lead for the Adult Acquired Team. This includes planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Speech and Language Therapy Service on a day-to-day basis.

As a Speech and Language Therapist, you will provide assessment, diagnosis, therapy and provide appropriate intervention for patients with communication and swallowing impairments. You will support patients to reach their potential and live their lives to the full. You will be able to focus your clinical work in your area of interest and expertise.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.

While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit our website.

Job responsibilities

As a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist Team Lead, you'll be part of our team primarily based at Chippenham Community Hospital, Wiltshire.

You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £46,148.00- £52,809.00 Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification
• Registered member of Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.