Job summary
- 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
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- 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
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 5-6 development role
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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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- Accredited Speech and Language Therapy qualification (BSc)
- Registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist (RCSLT)
- Post graduate training/qualification in Dysphagia.
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing clinical supervision (to students or SaLT staff
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nic McNamara
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01254 821670
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