Band 6 Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

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Band 6 Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

Job Reference HCRGCG/TP/ /20872

Number of Positions:

1

Contract Type:

Permanent - Part Time

Weekly contracted hours:

30

Location:

Woking

Closing Date:

25/10/2026

Job Category:

HCRG - Allied Health Professionals

Service type:

HCRG - Children's Services

Business Unit:

HCRG - Surrey 0-19

Job Introduction

As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist you will be part of our valued team in our Children's Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions + 5% Fringe
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day 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 life’s 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
• An open, just culture where you're 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 the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

We are looking for an experienced and compassionateSpeech and Language Therapist to join our dedicated Paediatric Therapy Team in Surrey. In this rewarding role, you will manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with complex needs, delivering high-quality, evidence-based assessment and intervention to help them achieve their full potential.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will collaborate closely with families, schools and healthcare professionals to develop child-centred therapy plans, provide specialist advice and support, and contribute to positive outcomes for children and young people. You will also play a key role in supporting service development, supervising junior staff and students, and driving excellent clinical practice across the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a specialist caseload of children and young people with complex needs, delivering high-quality assessments and evidence-based therapy interventions.
• Develop, implement and review individualised therapy plans to maximise outcomes across home, educational and community settings.
• Provide specialist advice, support and training to families, carers, schools and multi-agency professionals.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessments, diagnoses and care planning, including preparing specialist reports and recommendations.
• Supervise, support and develop junior therapists, assistants and students, including line management responsibilities.
• Maintain accurate clinical records, monitor outcomes and ensure practice aligns with professional standards and best practice.
• Participate in service development, quality improvement, audit and research activities.
• Support service leadership activities, including deputising for senior colleagues when required and contributing to the ongoing development of paediatric therapy services.
• Degree (or equivalent recognised qualification) in Speech & Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy.
• Current HCPC registration and membership of the relevant professional body.
• Minimum 2 years' post-graduate experience within a paediatric therapy setting.
• Experience managing children with a range of complex needs and using standardised assessment tools.
• Strong knowledge of current best practice and relevant legislation.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and delivering training to others.
• Excellent communication, organisation, clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
• Specialist post-graduate training relevant to paediatric therapy.
• Experience supervising or line managing staff, students or assistants.
• Membership of relevant specialist interest groups or clinical networks.
• Experience delivering training to parents, schools and other professionals.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and service improvement activity.

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About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do .

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone .

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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