Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 27 November 2025
Are you ready to be part of a growing and dynamic field of Speech and Language Therapy in Mental Health? We're offering an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Specialist SLT to join our supportive Allied Health Professions (AHP) team within urgent care mental health services across the Black Country (Inpatient mental health wards in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton).
This permanent, full-time post offers the chance to make a real impact with adults and older adults on mental health wards. We're open to part-time applications for the right candidate and offer flexible working arrangements (subject to service needs and policy).
Main duties of the job
* Deliver a specialist SLT service for dysphagia and communication needs.
* Work with clients presenting with complex and diverse mental health conditions, including behaviours that challenge.
* Provide dysphagia assessment, advice, and intervention to reduce clinical risks and support safe oral intake.
* Offer communication assessments and interventions tailored to individual needs.
* Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to support holistic care.
* Contribute to staff training and service development initiatives.
About us
We are an energetic and hardworking team, working with adults with mental health needs. We regularly come together exploring ways we can ensure a quality service as well as enabling shared learning. We work alongside Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Clinical Psychologists, Support Workers and other partners, both internal and external. As a Trust we are committed to increasing the quality and range of services we provide which are safe and supportive to services users, their carers and relatives. Having been reviewed by the CQC as 'Good' we are working towards further improving over time - Come and join us on this journey as we work to provide even better care for our staff and patients.
Job responsibilities
* Assess, diagnose and manage the communication and/or swallowing needs of patients referred to the service in inpatient settings. Responsible for autonomous initial patient diagnosis and assessment.
* Collection of detailed case history information
* Specialist informal assessment and observation
* Uses formal standardised assessment procedures
* Evaluates intervention plans using outcome measures and revises plans as necessary
* Contributes to, reads and abides by risk assessments relating to patients of the service.
* To carry out and support with mental capacity assessments.
* Communicates assessment and therapeutic findings within the multi-disciplinary team.
1. Completes contemporaneous case notes and written clinical information completion according to Trust procedures.
2. Undertakes specialist clinical work with individuals and groups of patients with guidance for the most complex cases from senior SLT.
3. Makes decisions leading to SLT review or discharge of patients and/or referral to other services, as appropriate.
4. Is responsible for managing own clinical caseload.
5. To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality Speech and Language Therapy service.
Person Specification
Clinical skills and knowledge
* Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or relevant equivalent oversees qualification)
* Post Graduate dysphagia qualification/ training and competencies achieved
* Experience in a relevant clinical field
* Demonstration of specialist interest/knowledge of Adults in Mental Health or Autism
* Experience in delivering training to groups of people
* Attendance at Clinical Excellence Network related to clinical area
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working
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