Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Liverpool, L31 1HW
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	31 Jul 2026
Closing date:	30 Aug 2026

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Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for aHighly Specialist Speech and Language Therapistto provide clinical leadership for the Speech and Language Therapy Learning Disability Pathway across our medium and low secure services at Maghull Health Park. Maghull Health Park is a specialist hospital site comprising three secure services:Ashworth High Secure Hospital,Rowan View Medium Secure Hospital, andAspen Wood Low Secure Unit. Aspen Wood provides specialist low secure care for men and women with learning disabilities, while Rowan View includes dedicated wards providing specialist learning disability support for men within a medium secure setting. Together, these services support individuals who require the safety and structure of a secure forensic environment alongside highly specialised NHS care.

Working collaboratively with service users, families, and the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT), we develop personalised care plans that promote recovery, maximise independence, and support progression through services in the most appropriate and least restrictive way. Our services deliver comprehensive assessment and a wide range of evidence-based individual and group interventions tailored to the holistic needs of the population we serve. Care is underpinned by the principles of trauma-informed and recovery-focused practice. All interventions are individualised and supported by robust risk assessment and management processes.

The post holder will have clinical and leadership elements within their role.

The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services.Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional, and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Provide direct intervention to enhance communication to empower service users to actively participate in their care and treatment.

• Support the development of independence, and life skills.

• Reduce both offending-related risk linking to communication difficulties; and physical risk due to dysphagia.

• Support the wider team in providing a collaborative and accessible communication environment.

• Advocate for and implement reasonable adjustments that enable each individual to achieve their full potential.

• Clinical supervision and line management responsibilities for the Speech and Language Therapy team

• Lead ongoing service development projects, audits and initiatives.

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.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification document for full details of this role.

This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Aug 2026

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