Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for committed and caring individual to join the Liverpool Community Learning Disability Team. You will be based at Norris Green Hub, Liverpool. The post holder will provide Speech & Language Therapy assessment and interventions as part of a team approach.

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

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

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 borough of Liverpool.

To work under the supervision of senior colleagues and provide specialist advice around communication and dysphasia to colleagues on the team.

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: Nicola Sprung Job title: Team manager Email address: nicola.sprung@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 7374800