Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Melling Mount; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work within the forensic low secure unit at Mersey Care. You will provide specialist therapy services to adults with mental health conditions and learning disabilities, focusing on complex communication needs and dysphagia management. The role includes clinical leadership, team supervision, and working collaboratively to ensure high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex communication needs.
• Experience in assessment and developing support plans.
• Clinical experience related to speech and language therapy.

Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize caseload effectively.
• Supervise and provide leadership to the team.
• Conduct specialist speech and language assessments.

Skills

Communication skills

Clinical leadership

Persuasive skills

Motivational skills

Education

Postgraduate qualification in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work with adults with mental health conditions and learning disabilities within our forensic low secure unit - Aspen Wood.

The role of the highly specialist speech and language therapist consists of supporting people with learning disabilities who have complex communication needs, management of dysphagia, management of waiting lists and working as MDT to provide person centred holistic care.

Duties

We are now recruiting a full-time Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT) to work within the learning disability team in Aspen Wood. The main duties of the role consist of:

• Full management responsibility for managing and prioritising caseload.
• Supervise other speech and language therapists and support workers in the team.
• To provide clinical leadership and training to the wider staff team with regards to speech, language and communication.
• To provide in depth specialist speech and language therapy assessments for the more complex service users referred to the team.
• To formulate and implement support plans as part of the MDT.
• Advising team manager about capacity / gaps in service delivery / operational issues.
• To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with provision of learning disability services in the community.
• To ensure Safeguarding requirements are upheld.
• Promote health and reduce inequalities for all patients accessing the speech and language therapy service.
• Use highly developed skills to convey complex and sensitive clinical information, using a high level of persuasive and motivational skill to enable others to follow swallowing/therapy plans.
  
  

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stephen Carragher Job title: Clinical Service Manager - Rehab & AHPs Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01514730303

Danielle Welsh - AHP Lead

[e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Health, Wellness & Fitness

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