Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 7

Main area: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist band 7

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 350-MHC6856214-A

Site: Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/04/2025 23:59

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 ethnic minorities, 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.

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SALT) to assess, manage and support the communication and dysphagia needs of inpatient service users at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation ward based in the Sid Watkins building on the Aintree Hospital site.

You will join a motivated inpatient team, including Neuropsychiatry, Psychology, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, and our team of Rehabilitation Co-therapists.

You will also be part of the wider Mental Health Care Division SALT service. We aim to provide the best person-centred care, ensuring quality and safety are central. We meet regularly for peer support, clinical supervision, and team meetings.

Main Duties of the Job

• Dysphagia assessment and intervention
• Communication assessment and intervention
• Supporting capacity assessments
• Service evaluation/audit
• Integral member of the MDT
• Attendance at MDT meetings and patient reviews

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification document for full details of this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of a recognised training course awarding relevant degree/diploma approved by the RCSLT and HPC
• Registered with the HPC – License to practice
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master’s level or equivalent
• Experiential training which demonstrates highly specialist skills in specialist area
• Evidence of management training
• Evidence of leadership training
• Membership of relevant special interest groups
• Post graduate certificate in speciality

Knowledge/Experience

• Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
• Experience of carrying out specialist assessments and interventions
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritise and manage own complex caseload
• Experience of working with highly complex cases, such as progressive illness and rare conditions
• Evidence of experience of: Multi-disciplinary team working
• Leading in service projects
• Developing and leading training of others and Language Therapists
• Advanced knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
• In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
• Advanced knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
• In-depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit
• Understands the roles of other professionals relevant to the client group
• Understands the standards of record keeping
• Understands confidentiality as relating to the NHS
• Experience of being a Clinical Educator
• Experience of providing supervision to staff members
• Experience of facilitating groups
• Experience of using iPads and other forms of technology
• Experience of delivering/developing training to staff/carers
• Student training

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills – including listening and empathy skills
• Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Excellent analytical and reflection skills
• Excellent presentation skills written and verbal
• Excellent organisational skills
• Prioritisation and time management skills
• Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe phonetically
• Able to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities
• Able to work independently recognising own limits
• Flexible and able to cope with change
• Learns from experience and willing to adapt accordingly, including learning new skills
• Able to critically appraise research articles
• Ability to communicate highly complex or sensitive advice and information to others

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.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [e-mail] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [e-mail]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.