Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Woking, Surrey
Surrey County Council

The salary range for this position is £34,415 – £37,353 per annum (NHS band 6 equivalent) based on 36 hours per week across 42 weeks per year (term time + 3 weeks of holiday working).

Our innovative and outcome focussed Schools SLT service would like to welcome Specialist Speech and Language Therapists to join our expanding mainstream and specialist schools provisions. We’re a large but very friendly team who are committed to supporting your ongoing development. So, whether you’re looking for full or part-time hours, we can offer you mixed mainstream and specialist posts, based on your experience and clinical interests.

Our service at a glance!

• The Surrey SLT service is a large team of over 150 qualified therapists and non-qualified therapy assistants, led by a Therapies Manager who is an SLT
• We offer excellent supervision and CPD models plus a rolling in-house training programme
• We have been working with the RCSLT and Reading University around the dysphagia competences linked to student placements
• One of our Therapists was voted People’s Choice in the Surrey Stars Awards 2022 receiving over 500 votes showing how well the service is regarded in the organisation

The school-aged SLT service is part of Surrey’s local SEND offer, working collaboratively with the Inclusion and Additional Needs Team and other areas like Educational Psychology and Specialist Teaching.

Our aim is to deliver the right support at the right time through assessment and intervention; equipping families and professionals with the skills and resources to work together to help support children with SLCN. We follow a tiered model, supporting universal, targeted and specialist intervention for children, families and the school workforce. We work with children and young people with EHCPs (Education, Health & Care Plans) and those at SEN (Special Education Needs) following Surrey’s Graduated Response.

Your Role

As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you can expect your days to be very varied; providing assessment, advice and intervention for children with a range of speech, language and communication needs. The role will involve clinical decision making around the level of support needed to achieve the best possible outcomes for the children we support. You will always have the support of your Clinical Team Leader where cases are complex or a multidisciplinary approach is needed.

You’ll work closely with Assistants to set targets and monitor outcomes, and also provide guidance for junior members of the team. We’ll provide you with all the training you need to develop your management skills, enabling you to take on line management responsibility of therapists and students.

We can offer you:

• Paid fees for RCSLT membership and HCPC
• Flexible working options around school core hours
• Mobile and agile working solutions
• Comprehensive clinical supervision programme including a buddy, 1:1 meetings with your line manager, extensive in house training programme and formal external training opportunities, access to clinical effectiveness groups, case study groups, termly study days, encouragement to join and attend CEN’s relating to practice
• Generous Local government salary-related pension
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing tools to support your mental and emotional well-being, including our free confidential Employee Assistance Programme, a range of mental health apps and support for staff in crisis

Here are the qualities, skills and experiences we are looking for in our Specialist Speech and Language Therapists:

• A real desire to extend your clinical expertise and independent clinical decision making
• A commitment to support the ongoing development of our therapy team and service
• A recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• A minimum of 2 years’ experience working as an SLT (slightly less experience with signed off completion of NQP competencies may be considered)
• HCPC and RCSLT registration

We are a friendly team of dedicated professionals who are passionate about the work we do. If you feel like this could be the place to further develop your therapy skills and knowledge, we can’t wait to hear from you!

The closing date for this advert is 23:59 on 3rd July 2023 with interviews to follow.

We have posts across all areas of Surrey including:

• North West (Woking, Runnymede, Surrey Heath)
• South West (Guildford and Waverley)
• North East (Epsom & Ewell, Spelthorne, and Elmbridge)
• South East (Reigate & Banstead, Mole Valley, and Tandridge)