Assistant Practitioner: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 28,392 to 31,157 £ / Year

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you looking for an opportunity to join the NHS and work within Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Services? Do you have experience supporting children’s speech, language and communication in an education setting?

We are expanding our team of Band 4 assistant practitioner roles to enable us to deliver the SEND White Paper’s new Experts at Hand in settings and schools. This is a great opportunity to join our highly motivated and innovative team based in Worcestershire. We have a number of new roles, based in the West and East of the county.

We are looking for positive, enthusiastic practitioners with a commitment to collaborative working to join our team.

As a county wide speech and language therapy team, we offer a strong commitment to supporting personal and professional development with ongoing mentor support, supervision and CPD opportunities.

This is a full time post, but we would consider applicants looking for part time.

We have positions available within our Catshill and Franche Clinics.

Applicants must read the attached guidance notes before submitting your application for full understanding of Trust requirements.

Main duties of the job

We are a well-established team offering a range of services for 0-19 year olds. This post will potentially involve working within our early years, mainstream schools and complex needs teams in Worcestershire, working alongside speech and language therapists and other speech and language therapy assistants to deliver universal, targeted and specialist level support. It will include:

Working with families, demonstrating practical ways to support children

Visits to schools to set up targeted and specialist interventions and share resources

Delivery of targeted and specialist interventions in settings and schools

Resource development

Working within our SLTA team to develop our service

We are looking for good team players, with good communication skills, who can be flexible and a supportive member of the team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care (or equivalent award, e.g. Higher National Diploma (HND) or BTEC Level 4)
  • GCSE Maths and English (Grade A-C) or equivalent

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience working within the clinical area – supporting children with speech, language and communication needs

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English and in both verbal and written formats

Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Able to travel efficiently to meet the needs of the job – travelling from setting to setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 22 October 2026

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