Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Tripple Tree Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

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 and 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.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Dysphagia assessment and intervention
2. Communication assessment and intervention
3. Providing Easy Read documentation
4. Supporting Capacity assessments
5. Service Evaluation/Audit
6. Integral member of the MDT
7. Attendance at MDT meetings and patient reviews

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.

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

This advert closes on Sunday 20 Apr 2025.