About the role
Salary: £39959.00 to £48117.00
Unique opportunity to join a team of mental health speech and language therapists working across the Trust's adult mental health wards. This is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapy (Band 6) role and would ideally suit an experienced practitioner with the desire to help deliver a high-quality service to people living with mental health needs and/or dementia.
You will already possess a broad range of skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including dementia, mental health conditions, acquired neurological conditions, learning disabilities and neurodiversity. Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD to develop skills gaps.
To provide mental health speech and language therapy services to inpatients who have communication or swallowing needs in an acute mental health hospital.
To provide the day-to-day speech and language therapy input within the multi-disciplinary team on the designated wards across the hospital.
To contribute actively to planning, evaluating and development of the service.
To provide leadership through supervision of speech and language therapy students as required.
Ensure effective liaison with other services within the locality including voluntary, statutory and community resources, as well as social services.