Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Leyland; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Leyland seeks a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for a Band 5-6 development role. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, primarily focusing on patients with learning disabilities at risk of offending. This full-time position offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Commitment to diversity and inclusion

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults who have communication disorders.
• Knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication.
• Ability to provide clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Manage a clinical caseload independently.
• Conduct speech and language therapy assessments.
• Develop treatment plans with care teams.

Skills

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Team Collaboration

Risk Assessment

Education

BSc in Speech and Language Therapy

Registration with HCPC

Member of the RCSLT

Postgraduate qualification in Dysphagia

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 5-6 development role

Main area Speech and Language Therapy Grade Band 5-6 development role Contract Permanent: Band 5 development role with the expectation that the successful candidate would work towards specific Band 6 competencies. Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday- Friday) Job ref 350-SC7260233

Site Alexander House Town Leyland Salary £29,970 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 26/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 08/07/2025

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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to our established Community Forensic Service (we would also consider appointment to a Band 5 development role with the expectation that the successful candidate would work towards specific Band 6 competencies).

The post will be as part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Community Forensic Learning Disability Service (CFLDS) based in Leyland working with people who have a learning disability who have offended or are at risk of offending. The service provides additional support to those who are at risk of contact with the Criminal Justice System or Hospital admission.

Main duties of the job

The CFLDS is a multidisciplinary team consisting of Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Social Work, Psychiatry, Nursing and Support Workers.

You will be expected to work in all areas of Lancashire and South Cumbria and liaise with the local learning disability and mental health services to develop proactive and preventative risk mitigation support.

You will have the opportunity to work with in a team of skilled Speech and Language Therapists who have developed a core and specialised role within the team.

You will receive regular clinical supervision from the lead Speech and language therapist in the CFLDS and will also have access to wider peer supervision opportunities with other speech therapy teams within Merseycare NHS Trust as well as strong links with the Clinical Excellence Networks.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Under the direct or indirect clinical supervision of the highly specialist speech and language therapist you will undertake the following duties:

a. To assume responsibility and accountability for people identified with speech and language therapy needs holding the duty of care and prioritising and managing the caseload independently based on the principles of risk and clinical risk, liaising with and referring to senior clinicians and relevant agencies as appropriate.

b. Be responsible for assessment and management of a clinical caseload with speech and language therapy needs.

c. Undertake comprehensive speech and language therapy assessment using investigative and analytical skills, to formulate an appropriate hypothesis and to determine a diagnosis and to determine a therapy management plan.

d. Provide a comprehensive assessment and management plan of service user’s clinical risk.

e. Work with the individual and their care team to develop Communication Treatment and Care plan and integrate these into Positive Behavioural Support plans.

Person specification

Knowldge and Experience

• A philosophy and approach that empowers people.
• Knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication and dysphagia.
• A person-centred approach to service delivery.
• Understanding of current NHS changes.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary Team Experience with provision of supervision and delegation to junior members of staff.
• Experience of use of outcome measures for clinical evaluation.
• Basic IT Skills (Microsoft Software: Excel, World, Power Point, MS Teams)
• Driving Licence
• Direct experience of working with adults with communication and Swallowing disorders.
• Experience of inter agency working.
• Experience of designing and delivering training for staff groups.
• Experience of using iPads and other forms of technology to support communication.
• Experience of facilitating groups.

Qualifications

• Accredited Speech and Language Therapy qualification (BSc)
• Registration with HCPC
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist (RCSLT)
• Post graduate training/qualification in Dysphagia.

Skills

• Ability to convey information and skills to direct care staff
• Flexible approach skills towards service change, demands and pressure
• Good time management and organizational skills
• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
• Experience of providing clinical supervision (to students or SaLT staff

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

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We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

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Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Name Nic McNamara Job title Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01254 821670