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Job overview

Are you a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with a broad range of clinical skills and experience?  Do you strive to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs? Are you flexible and motivated? Do you work well in a team? Then we are the team for you!  

We are looking for Band 6 Speech and Language Therapists on a permanent basis to work within our friendly and established teams of both Therapists and Assistant Practitioners across a range of settings and specialties within Swansea Bay including Flying Start. This could include working within Flying start settings, mainstream schools, community clinics and specialist teaching units supporting a variety of communication needs.  

We are a welcoming and forward thinking team working closely with our partners in the Local Authority, schools, support services and Health. The post holder will also benefit from professional support and development opportunities from specialist SLT colleagues, Band 7 SLT leads, as well as multi- agency members of the wider team. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be passionate, hard-working and dynamic with an interest in service improvement. They will have excellent team working skills including experience of working with multi-agencies and across teams. The post holders will work as an autonomous practitioner to assess, diagnose and manage a range of speech, language and communication difficulties in a shared specialist caseload of children and young people across the footprint.  You will support and facilitate student placements and mentor new members of staff. Experience of working in and managing a number of schools is desirable but support will be given. Working with Welsh medium pupils forms part of the role and so the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. There will be opportunities to gain skills organising and creating training, developing supervision skills and participating in total team development days and team meetings. You will also work with our senior therapists and wider team to ensure our service provides efficient, effective, patient centred care.  

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board. 

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.