Speech and Language Therapist

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist with Learning Disabilities and Autism experience, looking for the next step in your career? If so, join Bradley Complex Care in Grimsby, Lincolnshire as a Speech and Language Therapist.

Our service users have an array of complex sensory and communicative needs, and some have physiological problems such as dysphagia where there is a risk of choking presenting significant risk to life.

You will lead group therapeutic sessions, helping people develop and improve their speech and communication. Building one-to-one rapport with service users, you will encourage engagement and empower recovery.

You will have experience in managing a designated caseload using theoretical and practical experience, completing assessments, planning, implementing interventions, and evaluating outcomes aligned to care plans. 

You will have support from a Speech and Language Assistant, Regional Lead Speech and Language Therapist. You will also provide clinical supervision for the Speech and Language Therapy Assistant.

With a strong emphasis on teamwork, you’ll receive support from a regional network of healthcare professionals and enjoy access to a variety of training courses to support you reach your career goals

As a Speech and Language Therapist you will :

• Provide a high standard of Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) assessment and interventions within the service area providing as required.
• Provide specialist dysphagia assessment and intervention to service users, depending on the needs of the service.
• Assist the Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in maintaining efficient and effective services including identifying necessary changes to provision.
• Participate fully with the multidisciplinary / transdisciplinary team and ensure that the service user outcomes are aligned to aid their ongoing management.
• Take appropriate action where concerns are raised with regards to performance or conduct of others via raising to senior management as required.
• Promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of all service users, employees and visitors.
• Ensure the confidentiality, security and accuracy of data and information and compliance with regulatory guidelines and statutory requirements.
• Maintain and evidence standards of competence as defined by the HCPC and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Provision of SLT advice and consultation to others involved in service user’s care.As an autonomous practitioner, he/she will be responsible for their own work and interventions and for the interpretation of agreed guidelines and policies.
• To supervise junior staff/students as directed by the role holder’s line manager.

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

• Successful completion of professional qualification, enabling registration with the HCPC as a Speech and Language Therapist.
• To be a RCSLT Member
• Registration with the HCPC as a Speech and Language Therapist.
• 2 years’ experience or more working as a HCPC Speech and Language Therapist.
• Experience (either pre training on training or subsequently) of working with people with complex needs that are relevant to the population in the service area.
• Experience of supporting junior staff including students.
• Exceptional written English skills

What you will get:

• Annual salary of £40,000
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. 

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally. 

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.