We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our incredible team. If you are an existing Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist with early years experience eager to take the next step in your career, we would love to hear from you! Key Responsibilities: Providing specialist advice and support to the BSW SaLT service in order to identify and enable effective support and intervention for those with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). The assessment and differential diagnosis of a child/young person’s communication difficulties through use of formal and informal assessment, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents/carers and other professionals involved in their care. Advising, supporting, supervising, and managing junior colleagues within the speech and language therapy team. Sharing specialist knowledge with the wider team and relevant stakeholders. Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities. To succeed in this role you will have: Essential: Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent Health Professions Council – Licence to Practice Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Knowledge of assessment tools relevant to preschool and school-aged children Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and audit Understanding of the roles of other professionals relevant to the client group Knowledge of the standards of record keeping Excellent interpersonal skills – including observation, listening and empathy skills Negotiation and problem solving skills Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills Demonstrates ability to be a good team member including working with other agencies Well-developed concentration skills Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically Experience working with children with complex speech, language and communication difficulties Experience of developing relationships with staff from other agencies/organisations and management teams Desirable: Knowledge of Makaton Experience of working within mainstream and/or specialist provision Experience of delivering training Package Description As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our BSW Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission About the Company We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's 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, wesupportcommunities 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'recommittedto 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. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you.If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.