Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Are you interested in working in an inpatient Mental Health setting as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, whilst being supported to develop your skills to transition into a band 7 post as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist? If so, this is the job for you!We currently have a vacancy for a Band 6 Specialist Speech and LanguageTherapist to assess, manage and support service users' communication anddysphagia needs within the Mental Health Care Division in the inpatient setting at Hartley Hospital in Southport, Merseyside.Upon completion of an agreed development programme and successfuldemonstration of competencies, the successful applicant will be promoted to the band 7 position.

We aim to provide the best Person-Centred care and we put Quality and Safety at the heart of everything we do. We meet regularly for peer support, clinical supervision, team meetings and journal club.You will offer assessment and treatment to 2 wards at Hartley Hospital in Southport -complex care/ older adults with mental health needs, and the acute adult MH ward. You will also work alongside an experienced Band 7 SALT at Clock View Hospital (Liverpool L9), enabling you to experience SALT delivery in a variety of mental health care inpatient settings. This will provide you with opportunities for joint working and regular clinical supervision to support your skills development and ensure achievement of competencies to progress to band 7 status.

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.