Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist inGravesend inGravesend PUBLISHED 24 MAY 2024

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification
• Registered member of Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• Minimum of 3 years working with patients with communication and swallowing disorders caused by a range of aetiologies including use of a broad range of assessments and therapy interventions
• You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

As a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist, youll be part of ourteam primarily based at Gravesham Community Hospital, Gravesend.

You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £43,742- £50,056Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions and a high cost area supplementof 5% of the basic salary
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 lifes 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
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• An open, just culture where youre 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 a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you a pro-active and innovative Speech and Language Therapist with leadership skills based in the North Kent area? Are you looking to join an NHS Health and Social Care partner which is striving to make positive changes?

You will jointly lead our friendly and enthusiastic team based at Gravesham Community Hospital with another part-time (0.6WTE) Team Lead Speech and Language Therapist. As a forward-thinking and innovative team, we are always striving to improve and develop our services and we enjoy supporting colleagues to put their ideas into practice. Over the past year we have worked hard to adapt the way we deliver our services during the pandemic, whilst continuing to provide evidence-based and person-centred care. A large proportion of our intervention is currently delivered via telehealth (phone and video consultations) and we have worked hard to find creative ways to ensure we are meeting patients needs.

Gravesham Community Hospital is located a short distance from St Georges ShoppingCentre and is surrounded by well-known food establishments and local coffee shops making it an ideal base location.

You will work as Team Lead of the community Speech and Language Therapy team in North Kent.This includes planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Speech and Language Therapy Service on a day-to-day basis.

As a Speech and Language Therapist, you will provide assessment, diagnosis, therapy and advice for patients with acquired communication and swallowing disorders. You will support patients to reach their potential and live their lives to the full. You will be able to focus your clinical work in your area of interest and expertise. The team covers a wide-ranging patient caseload including neurological conditions, head and neck cancer, voice and dysfluency. We work within the Community Neurological Rehabilitation Team (CNRT) to meet the needs of patients with neurological diagnoses such as stroke, brain injury and progressive neurological conditions.