Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for committed and caring individual to join the St Helens and Knowsley Community Learning Disability Team. You will be based at Willis House, Whiston. The post holder will provide Speech & Language Therapy assessment and interventions as part of a team approach., To provide a Specialist Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) Clinical Service to adults with a Learning Disability (LD) and communication difficulties and/or Dysphagia across the boroughs of Knowsley and St Helens.

A qualification and experience of working with people with dysphagia is highly desirable for this Band 6 position.

This post is subject toan enhanced check with adults barred listDisclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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.