Job summary
- Main area
- Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist band 7
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6071077-B
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hartley Hospital
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SALT) to assess, manage and support the communication and dysphagia needs of inpatient service users at Hartley Hospital in Southport, Merseyside.
You will offer assessment and treatment on 2 inpatient mental health care wards: complex care/ older adults, and acute working age adults, at the well equipped Hartley Hospital (opened in 2020).
You will join a passionate, motivated inpatient team, including Consultant Psychiatrists, Mental Health nursing colleagues and others. You will be an integral member of the supportive, skilled team of Allied Health Professionals at Hartley Hospital.
You will also be part of the wider Mental Health Care Division SALT service. We aim to provide the best Person-centred care, ensuring quality and safety are central. We meet regularly for peer support, clinical supervision, team meetings.
Shortlisting planned for 07 August 2024
Interview planned for 21 August 2024
Main duties of the job
Dysphagia assessment and intervention
Communication assessment and intervention
Supporting Capacity assessments
Service Evaluation/Audit
Integral member of the MDT
Attendance at MDT meetings and patient reviews
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification document for full details of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completion of a recognised training course awarding relevant degree/diploma approved by the RCSLT and HPC
- Registered with the HPC – License to practice
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master’s level or equivalent
- Experiential training which demonstrates highly specialist skills in specialist area
- Evidence of management training
- Evidence of leadership training
- Membership of relevant special interest groups
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate certificate in speciality
- Postgraduate Dysphagia qualification / competencies
- Postgraduate Dysphagia qualification / competencies
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
- Experience of carrying out specialist assessments and interventions
- Proven ability to work independently, prioritise and manage own complex caseload.
- Experience of working with highly complex cases, such as progressive illness and rare conditions
- Evidence of experience of: Multi disciplinary team working
- Leading in service projects
- Developing and leading training of others and Language Therapists
- Advanced knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
- Advanced knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- In depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- Understands the roles of other professionals relevant to the client group
- Understands the standards of record keeping
- Understands confidentiality as relating to the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being a Clinical Educator
- Experience of providing supervision to staff members
- Experience of facilitating groups
- Experience of using iPads and other forms of technology
- Experience of delivering/developing training to staff/carers
- Student training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills – including, listening and empathy skills
- Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Excellent analytical and reflection skills
- Well-developed concentration skills.
- Excellent presentation skills written and verbal
- Excellent organizational skills
- Prioritisation and time management Skills
- Good Auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe phonetically
- Able to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities
- Able to work independently recognising own limits
- Flexible and able to cope with change
- Learns from experience and willing to adapt accordingly, including learning new skills
- Able to critically appraise research Articles
- Ability to communicate highly complex or sensitive advice and information to others
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Jones
- Job title
- Divisional Lead SALT, Mental Health Care Division
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07733768517
- Additional information
Hannah Davies
AHP Lead, Mental Health Care Division
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