Speech and Language Associate Practitioner

Job overview

This is a fixed term/secondment vacancy until 31/07/2027

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, flexible and motivated individual to join the Speech and Language Therapy Service in Ceredigion as a Speech and Language Therapy Associate Practitioner (Speech and Language Therapy Assistant) for a fixed term until end of July 2027.

You will be working within a friendly and established team of Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.  This role is to support the Flying Start and Families First programme in Ceredigion. This will involve working within a multi agency model linking with a wide range of professionals including families, pre-school staff and other Health Board colleagues.

The post-holder will be expected to work across a variety of settings including client homes, Cylchoedd Meithrin/nurseries, non-maintained settings, schools and clinics.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will work with the early years to support pre-school children to develop their Speech, Language and Communication skills.  There will be opportunities to support Speech and Language Therapists in training and upskilling families, pre school settings and other professionals.  You will also be supported to embed this training within the settings.  There are opportunities to develop your skills at the universal, targeted and specialist level and you will work under the guidance and support of a Speech and Language Therapist.

There will be opportunities to engage in creative development of training resources and clinic based resources and therefore knowledge of IT systems would be advantageous.

Relevant experience of working with children aged 0-5 is essential. It would be highly desirable to demonstrate experience of working with children with Additional Learning Needs.

Personal qualities required are excellent time, organisational and interpersonal skills, creativity, confidence to support others and empathy towards children and families in varying circumstances. Experience of providing reflective and constructive feedback to Speech and Language Therapists regarding clinical and non-clinical observations would also be beneficial.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is essential for this post. The Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you further develop your skills if necessary during the course of your employment with us.

Interviews will be held on 10/08/2026

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences.  In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.