Speech & Language Therapy Assistant

We need to output only HTML fragment, using

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Include only sections with real content. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the job posting. Key sections: - Employer heading: Speech & Language Therapy Assistant Band 3 Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ... This is description of employer. Could be "About the role" or maybe "About the organization". The instruction says use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have "About the role" heading containing overview of role and employer description. - Job Overview: includes details about permanent Band 3 Assistant Speech & Language Therapist, location, duties, etc. That's part of role overview. - Main duties of the job: list of duties. - Working for our organisation: flexible working info, list of sites. - Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities: list of responsibilities. - Person specification: Qualifications & Education, Knowledge & Experience, Skills & Abilities. - Also mention Interview Date, Hours per week. - Benefits: mention "Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’." So we have benefits but not detailed; we might not include Benefits section unless we have specific content. The instruction: never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It mentions benefits exist but not detail; we could include a Benefits heading with a note to see documents? Might be considered placeholder. Probably better to omit Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. - Pay: not mentioned. - Schedule: Hours per week mentioned: "18 Hours 45 Minutes/Week". Also maybe shift? So we can include Schedule section with that. - Pay: not present, so omit. - Requirements: could be Qualifications & Education etc. We'll have Requirements or Qualifications? The instruction list includes both Requirements and Qualifications as possible headings. We need to decide which to use. Probably combine qualifications and experience under "Requirements" or "Qualifications". Since they have separate sections: Qualifications & Education, Knowledge & Experience, Skills & Abilities. Could make headings: Qualifications, Requirements, Skills. But we need to follow instruction: use headings from list; we can use multiple as appropriate. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent. Let's extract substantive content: Employer description: Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. Around 16,000 staff, annual budget £1.7bn. Strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally, internationally; top five providers of specialised health services. Provide wide range of hospital and community services; support people with rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic disorders. Committed to promoting equality and diversity; inclusive environment; value diversity; aim to recruit workforce reflecting communities served. Welcome all applications irrespective of protected characteristics. Proud to be exemplar organisation on sustainability; long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine); first healthcare organisation in world to declare a climate emergency. Strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030 for direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will need help of every team member. That's substantive. Job Overview: permanent Band 3 Assistant Speech & Language Therapist to work with adult team. Based at Community location, Denton Park Health Centre delivering service to people with acquired communication and/or swallowing problems. Role involves supporting work of speech and language therapists by providing routine administration duties, preparing materials for assessment and delivering delegated interventions directly with patients and their carers. Patients largely seen at home, nursing homes and at hospital bedside. Require someone with excellent communication skills who has work experience of adults and preferably those with impaired communication. Knowledge of system one is highly desirable. Chosen candidate will be a supportive team member with lots of energy, a flexible approach to each working day and a genuine interest in people. In turn you can expect to be supported by the team and gain experience with our expert team. Interview Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026 Hours: 18 Hours 45 Minutes/Week Main duties of the job (list): - Administration of referrals, appointments, discharge - Proof reading reports and email to recipients - Preparing assessment and therapy materials - Working with patients on delegated therapy interventions - Supporting therapists in group sessions - Setting up communication aids - Supporting therapists in teaching sessions Working for our organisation: flexible working friendly organisation; want to accommodate flexible working arrangement; speak to us about how we might accommodate. If works for service, will do best to make it work for you. With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from list of sites: Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI), Freeman Hospital, Newcastle Dental Hospital, Cramlington Manor Walks, Urgent treatment centres, Newcastle Fertility Centre, Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria, Northern Genetics Service. These include flagship services delivering cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS. Also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites. Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities (list): - To assist Speech and Language Therapists in providing a quality service for patients with acquired communication and swallowing problems. - This essentially includes: - To assist in clinical procedures, within competence, with specialist SLT staff. - To provide advice/training with patients, families and other members of the MDT on the use of Assistive and Augmentative communication methods - To gather information via phone from other hospital sites, care homes and/or family members - To be responsible for stock maintenance and ordering of equipment - To implement speech therapy designed treatment programmes, making modifications within programmes to suit patient circumstances and progress - To perform administrative and clerical duties - To enter data into system one Person specification: Qualifications & Education Essential criteria: - Minimum NVQ level 3 or equivalent - Valid driving licence Knowledge & Experience Essential criteria: - Relevant experience in dealing with communication impaired adult patients - Experience of delivering work/programmes devised by other professionals - Breadth of knowledge of health care system / workings Desirable criteria: - Experience of working with those with swallowing impairments (dysphagia) - General knowledge of speech and swallowing disorders in adults - General knowledge of communication disorders in adults - General knowledge of assistive and augmentative communication methods - Knowledge of system one - General adult neuro experience - Experience working with disabled, highly distressed people or people with long term conditions - Experience of working in multidisciplinary teams Skills & Abilities Essential criteria: - Excellent interpersonal skills. - Excellent communication skills - Reflective practice skills. - Excellent organisational skills. - Prioritisation skills - Excellent computer skills Important note on completion of reference section: references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover minimum 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing reference section of application form, please give address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete may result in application not being processed. Note: requirement for DBS payment: successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate via salary deduction from first month’s pay. Candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail; check spam; if not contacted within 4 weeks of closing date assume unsuccessful. Employer certification / accreditation badges: Applicant requirements: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Documents to download: list of PDFs. Contact for further details / informal visits: Name Jane Appleton, Job title Head of Service: Speech & Language Therapy, Email j.appleton2@nhs.net. We need to exclude boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Also exclude "NO AGENCIES PLEASE", "You will be redirected to Trac to apply", "Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy". Also exclude "Employer certification / accreditation badges" maybe not needed? It's substantive? It's about applicant requirements re DBS and Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. That is relevant to requirements. Could include under Requirements or Qualifications. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown fences. We'll structure:

About the role

Employer description + Job Overview + Interview Date + Hours/Week maybe? But Hours could go under Schedule section. We'll separate. Better: About the role includes employer description and job overview (excluding schedule). Then separate Schedule section for hours. Responsibilities section: combine Main duties and Detailed Job Description. Requirements/Qualifications/Skills: we could have Qualifications, Requirements, Skills. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps combine Qualifications & Experience under "Requirements" and Skills under "Skills". Or have "Qualifications" and "Skills". Let's decide: -

Qualifications

: include NVQ level 3 or equivalent, valid driving licence. -

Requirements

: include knowledge & experience essential criteria, desirable criteria, DBS requirement, Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, reference requirement. -

Skills

: include essential skills list. But we also have "Knowledge & Experience" which could be part of Requirements. We'll also have

Schedule

for hours. We might also have

Benefits

but we don't have specifics; maybe we can mention that benefits details are in attached documents; but that's not specific. Better to omit. We need to preserve all substantive information; if we omit Benefits, we are omitting mention that benefits details exist. Is that substantive? It's a pointer to documents; but not a benefit itself. Might be okay to omit as per instruction: never create Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state that benefits info is available in documents, but not the benefits themselves. So we can omit. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Already not. We need to avoid duplication: some content appears in both Main duties and Detailed Job Description; we should combine but preserve all info, not duplicate same sentences. We'll merge unique points. Let's list all unique duties/responsibilities: From Main duties: - Administration of referrals, appointments, discharge - Proof reading reports and email to recipients - Preparing assessment and therapy materials - Working with patients on delegated therapy interventions - Supporting therapists in group sessions - Setting up communication aids - Supporting therapists in teaching sessions From Detailed Job Description: - Assist Speech and Language Therapists in providing a quality service for patients with acquired communication and swallowing problems. - Assist in clinical procedures, within competence, with specialist SLT staff. - Provide advice/training with patients, families and other members of the MDT on the use of Assistive and Augmentative communication methods - Gather information via phone from other hospital sites, care homes and/or family members - Be responsible for stock maintenance and ordering of equipment - Implement speech therapy designed treatment programmes, making modifications within programmes to suit patient circumstances and progress - Perform administrative and clerical duties - Enter data into system one Some overlap: administration duties, preparing materials, working with patients, supporting therapists, etc. We'll combine into a cohesive list without duplication. We'll produce a

with items: - Administration of referrals, appointments, discharge - Proofreading reports and emailing recipients - Prepar