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Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills & Abilities
An ability to work as part of the MDT and communicate appropriately with all grades of staff.
- Skills & Abilities
An ability to empathise and reassure
- Values & Behaviours
Demonstrate enthusiasm, vision and a desire to achieve
- Values & Behaviours
Committed to developing skills within SALT and the clinical speciality.
- Values & Behaviours
Demonstrate a forward-thinking and professional attitude
- Values & Behaviours
The ability to work as part of a team
- Values & Behaviours
Flexible and able to adapt to situations which may be stressful and highly pressured.
- Values & Behaviours
Ability to work to the Trust values and behaviours
- Knowledge & Experience
Evidence of recent and relevant CPD including attendance at courses relevant to speech and language therapy.
- Knowledge & Experience
Good clinical reasoning skills based on evidence and current research
- Knowledge & Experience
Evidence of attendance at mandatory training
- Knowledge & Experience
Demonstrate a knowledge of the MDT and their differing contributions to patient care
- Qualifications & Education
Diploma/Degree/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy
- Qualifications & Education
HCPC Registration
Desirable
5 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills & Abilities
Evidence of presentation and teaching skills within a healthcare environment
- Knowledge & Experience
IM & T Skills.
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of supervising students
- Qualifications & Education
Dysphagia practitioner
- Qualifications & Education
Membership of relevant clinical interest or professional group
Job overview
Are you an adult Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new challenge? Are you looking to gain experience in a specialist acute setting? Would you like to the opportunity to develop skills in critical care, dysphagia, FEES and VFS?
If so, then this could be the post for you!
We are looking to recruit a positive, reliable, and motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join our team on a full time (1.0 WTE) permanent contract.
Main duties of the job
In this development post you would be supported with extensive supervision and training to progress to a Band 6 role within an agreed time frame (expected 18 months) and having met specific requirements as outlined in the attached job description document.
This is an exciting position to support to our patients with swallowing and/or communication difficulties following surgery, prolonged intubations, recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries, stroke, hypoxic brain injury etc. We help rehabilitate patients from critical care to home, using evidenced based treatments and approaches. We lead an established FEES service and collaborate with our SALT colleagues at Liverpool University Foundation Hospitals to deliver a weekly videofluoroscopy clinic.
You will have the opportunity to support patients on critical care as well as on our surgical and medical wards. You will take a lead role within our stroke team, contributing to weekly MDT meetings and staff training.
Due to the nature of our patients, it would be favourable if you had an interest in developing skills in instrumental swallowing assessments.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We can offer you:
- Regular clinical supervision from your band 7 and 8a colleagues and peer supervision with junior therapists across the MDT.
- Regular exposure and ample opportunities to develop competencies in FEES, critical care, VFS and tracheostomy management.
- A small but friendly team with strong emphasis on CPD, innovation, service improvement and research.
- Regular working hours (Monday – Friday).
- A fantastic place to work, learn and develop. Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital is one of the country’s leading providers for cardiothoracic surgery and cardio-thoracic conditions, having been awarded outstanding by CQC twice and was voted top in the national NHS staff survey for staff engagement and a place to work.
If this sounds like it could be for you, we welcome your application and encourage you to get in touch if you would like further information.
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.
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This advert is for Speech and Language Therapist - Development post with Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 Band 5 to 6 development post.. The contract type is Permanent: Band 5 - 6 Development post. The application deadline is 09 Sep 2026.
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