Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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A fabulous opportunity has arisen for a Speech and Language Therapist to be part of the team who provide a specialist mental health service across the vibrant city of Liverpool. We are looking for a dysphagia trained Speech and Language Therapist with a passion for providing patient-centred care to work in our Older Person Community Mental Health Team.
The position will be based within the community hub at Leigh Moss Hospital. The CMHT is an effective and dynamic multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, psychiatrists, physiotherapist, speech and language therapists and support staff.
We welcome enquiries and applications from aspiring or practising Band 6 SLTs looking to develop your skills and experience working with people with mental health conditions.
It is essential this post holder holds a UK Driving Licence as this is a community based role covering the footprint of Liverpool City Region.
To arrange an informal visit or to talk more about the role please contact Lauren McAlpine 0151 2506125 lauren.mcalpine@merseycare.nhs.uk
This role would provide the opportunity to develop your clinical skills with this patient group. The post holder will liaise with a wide range of professional and external agencies to ensure efficient, high quality patient care with regular support and peer supervision from a small friendly team. The post-holder will have opportunities to develop skills related to dementia
* To utilise your core speech and language therapy skills to provide high quality speech and language therapy interventions to older people with a mental illness, and to older persons with dementia.
* To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering a comprehensive service to service users who require specialist mental health interventions.
* To participate in the ongoing development and maintenance of quality services, managing complex care directly, and indirectly eg training staff in strategies to support communication and/or safer swallowing.
* To participate in the education and supervision of a range of students.
* To maintain clear links with your speech and language therapy structures, Lead SLT and your AHP lead within the Trust.
* Support the speech and language therapy team development, promoting SLT role within multidisciplinary team and alerting managers to areas of SLT need and service development
* Adherence to RCSLT speech and language therapy standards and codes of practice.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lauren McAlpine Job title: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Email address: Lauren.McAlpine@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 2506125
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