Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Are you seeking a speech & language therapy role within a well-established team of skilled and experienced clinicians? If you want to develop your own clinical skills with a varied range of clients in the community, this could be the post for you. We are looking to recruit a permanent, Band 6 Specialist SLT.

This role gives the post holder a unique opportunity to work with a large group of specialist Speech and Language Therapists as they develop their knowledge and skills. Our Speech & Language Therapists work with adults who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties in community settings, including clinics and home visits.

We work remotely where it is beneficial, but also use our base to see patients and hold line management and supervision sessions. We value CPD and carry out robust clinical supervision and appraisals to encourage therapists’ specialist interests and innovation. The team has Assistant Practitioners who provide treatment plans and training. The team is led by an operational manager and we have excellent AHP support within Mersey Care leadership.

This post would suit someone who is looking to develop their skills within a community setting or perhaps someone who is interested in broadening their clinical skills with a more varied caseload.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention to service users who have communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties.
• Address difficulties that occur as a consequence of physical and mental health conditions such as Learning Disability, Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Dementia, and Mental Illness.
• Manage a caseload that may cover the whole spectrum of communication disorders, including non-verbal communication, dysfluency, high-level language/social use of language, and voice as applicable to the service.
• Integrate within the therapy team and work with the team to develop person-centred care plans.

Supervision will be provided by a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist.

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. We 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, as well as 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 costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.