Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Liverpool is seeking a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join their Older Person Community Mental Health Team. This role involves providing specialized therapy for communication and swallowing disorders within a supportive multi-disciplinary environment. The candidate must have dysphagia training and a UK Driving Licence. Wind up your clinical skills while making a significant impact in patient care across the community. Flexible working arrangements can be considered.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive team environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with complex health needs.
• Ability to assess and treat communication and swallowing disorders.
• UK Driving Licence required as this role involves community work.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality speech and language therapy interventions.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to offer comprehensive services.
• Manage own caseload and ensure regular reviews of care plans.

Skills

Dysphagia training

Patient-centered care

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

Qualified Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Overview

A fabulous opportunity has arisen for a Speech and Language Therapist to be part of the team who provide a specialist mental health service across the vibrant city of Liverpool. We are looking for a dysphagia trained Speech and Language Therapist with a passion for providing patient-centred care to work in our Older Person Community Mental Health Team. The position will be based within the community hub at Leigh Moss Hospital. The CMHT is an effective and dynamic multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, psychiatrists, physiotherapist, speech and language therapists and support staff. We welcome enquiries and applications from aspiring or practising Band 6 SLTs looking to develop your skills and experience working with people with mental health conditions. It is essential this post holder holds a UK Driving Licence as this is a community based role covering the footprint of Liverpool City Region. To arrange an informal visit or to talk more about the role please contact Lauren McAlpine 0151 2506125 [e-mail]

Role and Development

This role would provide the opportunity to develop your clinical skills with this patient group. The post holder will liaise with a wide range of professional and external agencies to ensure efficient, high quality patient care with regular support and peer supervision from a small friendly team. The post-holder will have opportunities to develop skills related to dementia.

Responsibilities

• To utilise your core speech and language therapy skills to provide high quality speech and language therapy interventions to older people with a mental illness, and to older persons with dementia.
• To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering a comprehensive service to service users who require specialist mental health interventions.
• To participate in the ongoing development and maintenance of quality services, managing complex care directly, and indirectly e.g. training staff in strategies to support communication and/or safer swallowing.
• To participate in the education and supervision of a range of students.
• To maintain clear links with your speech and language therapy structures, Lead SLT and your AHP lead within the Trust.
• Support the speech and language therapy team development, promoting SLT role within multidisciplinary team and alerting managers to areas of SLT need and service development.
• Adherence to RCSLT speech and language therapy standards and codes of practice.
• To participate as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in a multi-disciplinary team, with specific responsibility to assess and treat adults with complex health needs.
• To be responsible for the delivery of specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, delivery and evaluation of evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy intervention in a variety of settings including inpatient, individual home setting, care homes or outpatient clinics for clients with communication and swallowing disorders, such as dysphagia, dysfluency, voice, head and neck.
• To act as a Care coordinator where applicable, ensuring that clients have full access to any generic services that they require.
• To be responsible and accountable for their own caseload and ensure that care plans are written and reviewed regularly.
• To contribute to the prioritisation of the waiting list for Speech and Language Therapy.
• To complete intake assessments on behalf of the team and feedback to the multi-disciplinary team.
• To work alongside and liaise with other professionals within the team, staff at day centres, residential staff and families. To provide clinical advice to these on the communication needs of clients, resolving areas of conflict as necessary.
• To provide specialist knowledge on alternative and augmentative systems of communication, where appropriate. To ensure that all relevant agencies have access to all systems.
• To identify and take responsibility for allocating work and providing supervision to Speech and Language Therapy assistants.
• To provide training days to staff teams around specific individual’s communication to devise strategies and management plans.
• To be able to deputise on the absence of the clinical lead and ensure coordination of caseload is well managed within the team.
• To be an active and enthusiastic team member by participating with service improvement activities, promoting innovation, being supportive to other team members and proactive when identifying potential issues in the service.

About Mersey Care and Working Here

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.

Working Arrangements

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Role Summary

To participate as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in a multi-disciplinary team, with specific responsibility to assess and treat adults with complex health needs. To be responsible for the delivery of specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, delivery and evaluation of evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy intervention in a variety of settings including inpatient, individuals home setting, care homes or outpatient clinics for clients with communication and swallowing disorders, such as dysphagia, dysfluency, voice, head and neck. To act as a Care coordinator where applicable, ensuring that clients have full access to any generic services that they require. To be responsible and accountable for their own caseload and ensure that care plans are written and reviewed regularly.

Additional Information

This advert closes on Wednesday 24 Sep 2025