Overview
Whether you are a dedicated Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist or a passionate and experienced Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist looking to progress, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy team in BaNES!
The Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Service provides inpatient and outpatient services to adults living within Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES). The service aims to maximise long term independence, choice, and quality of life by enabling earlier hospital discharge, preventing unnecessary admissions, and reducing the need for ongoing support after intervention, thereby improving quality of life.
As an organisation, we support a healthy work-life balance by offering hybrid working. Your main base location will be St Martins Hospital in Bath, with some opportunity to work from home.
This is a fixed-term opportunity (12 months to cover maternity leave).
Main duties of the job
The role will involve:
* Independently managing a caseload and providing skilled and specialised evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy to adults with a wide range of communication and swallowing difficulties in a variety of settings
* Engaging with the service triage system to ensure referrals are managed in a timely way and service users are given the best advice as quickly as possible
* Assessing and differentially diagnosing service users with complex communication and swallowing difficulties, developing and implementing clear treatment plans, including comprehensive discharge plans from the service
* Providing evidence-based interventions, including intensive dysphagia and aphasia interventions
* Providing advice, training and education to others regarding the management and care of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties
* Demonstrating high levels of communication with service users, their families, carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team
* Providing supervision as required
* Providing support to the Speech and Language Therapy Assistant
* Assisting with managing waiting lists
* Referring for videofluoroscopy examinations
Please refer to the attached job description for a full list of role 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 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, 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 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 https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Details
Date posted: 11 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: HCRGCG/TP/40134/16895
Job locations: HCRG Care Group, Bath, Avon, BA2 5RP
Job description and responsibilities
As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist in the Community service, you’ll be part of our valued team based at St Martin's Hospital in Bath. You will be valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, with access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* Salary of £37,338 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Free tea and coffee at your base location
* Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts on everyday purchases and cashback offers
* Access to wages as you earn them to help cover emergencies and avoid overdraft or high interest rates
* Support for mental and physical wellbeing, including wellbeing resources, career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and continuing professional development through The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture encouraging idea sharing, supported by ringfenced innovation funding
* A commitment to high clinical and quality standards, with many services rated good or outstanding by the Care Quality Commission
Person Specification
General requirements – Essential: View the Job Description on our career site. Desirable: View the Job Description on our career site.
Disclosure and DBS
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such a Disclosure to the DBS will be sought.
Employer details
Employer: HCRG Care Group
Address: HCRG Care Group, Bath, Avon, BA2 5RP
Employer's website: https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)
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