Advanced Inpatient Mental Health SLT – Flexible Hours

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire

On-site

GBP 33,000 - 43,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to cover maternity leave within our mental health services. You will join a well-established trust-wide SLT team, work across ward MDTs, and deliver evidence-based interventions for adults with communication and swallowing difficulties.

The role offers clinical supervision, CPD opportunities, and involvement in service development, research, and quality improvement projects.

Qualifications

Qualified speech and language therapist with mental health experience.
Ability to work within ward MDTs and deliver evidence-based interventions.
Commitment to audit/research and quality improvement opportunities.

Responsibilities

The post holder will work within the MDT and be responsible for the wards caseloads and offer assessment, treatment, planning, and delivery of evidence-based highly specialised speech and language intervention across mental health wards.
To provide a dysphagia and speech, language and communication needs service.
To identify audit/research/quality improvement opportunities, initiating, designing and implementing agreed projects as required.
To lead/contribute to training and development programmes relating to the field of expertise, delivering to other professionals.
To actively participate in the delivery of the ward objectives, and support implementation of the Care Quality Commission requirements and regulatory standards.
To work within the wider SLT mental health speech and language therapies team to share best practice, co-ordinate projects, progress clinical developments and co-ordinate cover arrangements for wards during leave.