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Speech and Language Therapist | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 25 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2024 |
| Location: | Hastings, TN34 1BA |
| Company: | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6426201/846-6426201-UJ |
Summary
Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career in Children’s speech and language therapy?
Come and work for Children’s Integrated Therapy and Equipment Service in beautiful East Sussex.
We have Band 5 job opportunities in our Neighbourhood and Integrated Care Teams, where we are transforming how we work with education settings so that we can focus on delivering specialist intervention. You will be an innovative thinker and strong negotiator, passionate about improving outcomes for children with SLCN in the community.
We will provide training and we offer excellent supervision and development opportunities to support you through your RCSLT preceptorship.
Tell us where your career passion lies and we will enable you to gain the experience. If you want a range of experience to explore where your clinical preferences are we can do that too!
Contact Suki Ahsam on 07795 590271 or s.ahsam@nhs.net for an informal conversation to know more about these roles and what we can offer you.
Work within an integrated children's therapy team including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, assistants and administrators for children aged 0-19.
Provide assessment, review, specialist advice, training and therapy interventions for children with the following areas of need: alternative and augmentative communication (AAC); pre-verbal communication; receptive and expressive language; speech.
Work in close partnership with schools, other education providers and the local authority services
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Jul 2024