Job responsibilities
1. To work independently, with responsibility and accountability to manage and prioritise caseloads of pre‑school and school‑aged children with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties in the community.
2. To offer assessment and differential diagnosis of a child's communication difficulties through use of formal and informal assessment, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents and other professionals involved in their care.
3. To produce reports reflecting clinical knowledge regarding clients' needs and summarising proposed care plans/target sheets for parents, carers, setting staff, and other professional colleagues, based on evidence. This may include production of reports for education, health and care plans.
4. To manage ongoing care as per service clinical care pathways.
Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities.
Location & Base
High Post, Technology House, High Post Business Park, Salisbury, SP4 6AT
Package Description
As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our 0‑19 Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions.
* Membership of My Reward Hub, with access to discounts on everyday purchases.
* Access to wages as they are earned to help cover emergencies and avoid overdrafts.
* Online and face‑to‑face help with mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post‑trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, 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.
* An open, just culture encouraging the implementation of ideas that help deliver our purpose of changing lives through health and care improvement.
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards, with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team.
We are a Disability Confident Committed company, working to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be inclusive of everyone.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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