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The Speech and Language Therapy Team are excited to advertise this permanent position within Ashworth High Secure Hospital in Liverpool. The  post will provide the opportunity to deliver evidence-based speech and language therapy assessment, treatment and intervention to service users who have a forensic profile with a range of  communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties. The post holder will work with service users who have a primary diagnosis of a mental illness and/or personality disorder. 

The caseload may cover a wide spectrum of communication disorders associated with higher level language, social communication, expressing and describing emotions and mental state, and understanding the parameters of their care to meaningfully engage. 

The post holder will have the opportunity to be integrated as a valuable member of the MDT on site and be actively involved in ensuring both patient care and wider service developments are co-produced and accessible to all. 

Supervision and line management will be provided by the Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and the successful post holder will be supported to achieve competences in core speech and language therapy skills relevant to the role.

We are happy to invite applicants with HCPC registration pending and Newly Qualified Speech and Language Therapists.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

The post holder will be required to:

- Work under the supervision of a senior SALT

- Manage their own clinical caseload (for a newly qualified therapist this will  be within their competency level)

- Carry out assessment and intervention e.g. therapy/treatment

- Work collaboratively with the wider MDT e.g. scaffolding others interventions to meet patient communication needs

- Support patient understanding of their care, treatment, and forensic risk

- Develop and support the delivery of training 

- Develop communication profiles 

- Support wider service development projects to ensure these are accessible

*Please see job description attached to this form for further information. 

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people. 

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.