Main area Allied Health Professionals Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 828-PROVIDE3603
Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Broomfield Hospital Town Chelmsford Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/07/2025 23:59
Job Overview
An opportunity to gain experience as a newly qualified Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist working with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing in adults. The position available is a rotational post with opportunities across our acute general medical and stroke services in Broomfield, our community service and our Early Supported Discharge Service for Stroke. The post is accountable to the Operational Lead for MSE Adult Community Speech & Language Therapy.
This position is suitable for newly qualified SLTs as their first post or those with some experience wishing to move into Adult work for the first time. This an exciting time to join the team as we are working with our partners to transform Community services across the Mid and South Essex area.
Main duties of the job
Summary Of The Key Responsibilities
- providing a Speech and Language Therapy service to adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing
- undertaking diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients with a range of speech, voice, communication and swallowing disorders.
- liaising and offering advice as appropriate to a wide range of professionals
- responsible for the daily organisation of sessions.
- demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills.
- The post holder must have undertaken, or be prepared to undertake, post graduate training to work with disorders of dysphagia
- The post holder must hold a 1st degree level qualification or equivalent and be registered with HCPC and should be a member of RCSLT.
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.
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
Key Responsibilities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- providing a service to adults with acquired disorders of communication and swallowing
- undertaking diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients with a range of speech, voice, communication and swallowing disorders.
- liaising and offering advice as appropriate to a variety of professionals
- responsible for the daily organisation of sessions.
- demonstrating excellent interpersonal skills.
- working with disorders of dysphagia (must have undertaken, or be prepared to undertake, post graduate training )
- must hold a 1st degree level qualification or equivalent and be registered with HCPC and should be a member of RCSLT.
This role specification indicates the main functions of the post. It is not an exhaustive list of the responsibilities and tasks required for the job. There may be a requirement to undertake other duties as reasonably required to support the organisation. This may also include work outside of the postholder’s normal sphere of activities, including functions not detailed within this role specification or working within another location or environment. The postholder will not be required to undertake any function for which they are not qualified or competent to perform.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- Registered member of Health & Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist
- Knowledge and adherence to local and national clinical guidelines
Desirable criteria
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Network
Work related knowledge & experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant clinical experience including undergraduate clinical placements and/or work experience. Experience for example within community clinics settings/ acute ward settings/ speech and language disorder/ acquired communication/ swallowing disorders
- Knowledge of assessment tools
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Knowledge of national policies and procedures
Skills & aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Frequent and intense use of auditory discrimination, perceptual and concentration skills for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients
Speciality Specific Requirements
Essential criteria
- Dysphagia Competencies - Must have undertaken, or be prepared to undertake, post graduate training to work with disorders of dysphagia
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of clinical Guidelines - An awareness of the national Stroke Guidance
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 [email protected]
- 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.
Anti Fraud
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Disability
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[email protected].
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.
