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

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

CAPTION: Job details

• Posting date: 09 June 2026


• Salary: Not specified


• Additional salary information: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum, pro rata


• Hours: Part time


• Closing date: 09 July 2026


• Location: Liverpool, L9 3DF


• Company: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust


• Job type: Permanent


• Job reference: 8043533/350-SC8043533

Summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) within HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health needs of our population in partnership with other Health providers and HMPPS colleagues.

HMP Liverpool is a Category B, male only, local prisons, in the Liverpool area.

The services provide assessment, individual and group-based interventions, based on the holistic needs of the population. The service adopts the biopsychological model and is informed by principles of trauma informed and recovery focussed care. Interventions are individualised alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management.

Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health within the wider prison.

The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical and from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.

We are now recruiting a part-time Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work within the team at HMP Liverpool. Speech and Language Therapy has proven to be hugely effective with the client group and is a very valued and respected profession within the team. The successful post-holder will work alongside other Speech and Language Therapy peers within our prisons.

The successful candidate will contribute to the effective on-going delivery of the Speech and Language Therapy service within HMP Liverpool. 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.

We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

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.

To provide high quality consultation, specialist assessment and intervention of speech, language and communication needs.

To support the development of the Speech and Language Therapy service and strive for continuous improvement.

To take a lead on and provide evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy assessment, treatment and intervention to service users who have complex needs.

This role will be integrated in the therapy team and will work with the team to develop person centred care.

Supervision will be provided within the trust as applicable.

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Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health within the wider prison.

The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical and from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.

We are now recruiting a part-time Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work within the team at HMP Liverpool. Speech and Language Therapy has proven to be hugely effective with the client group and is a very valued and respected profession within the team. The successful post-holder will work alongside other Speech and Language Therapy peers within our prisons.

The successful candidate will contribute to the effective on-going delivery of the Speech and Language Therapy service within HMP Liverpool. 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.

We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of an Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) within HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health needs of our population in partnership with other Health providers and HMPPS colleagues., 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.

To provide high quality consultation, specialist assessment and intervention of speech, language and communication needs.

To support the development of the Speech and Language Therapy service and strive for continuous improvement.

To take a lead on and provide evidence-based Speech and Language

Therapy assessment, treatment and intervention to service users who have complex needs.

This role will be integrated in the therapy team and will work with the team to develop person centred care.