NHS Scotland
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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About the Role
We are delighted to share this opportunity for an individual who has a special interest in developing services to children with additional support needs to join our Children and Young People’s Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) service.
The postholder will work with children, young people, their families/carers and other professionals to develop and implement personal outcome-focused intervention. The caseload will be mainly children and young people with complex speech and language difficulties and/or eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties.
This post offers an opportunity to work alongside a range of SLTs and other professionals in our child development centres, specialist and mainstream education provisions, those working in the Neurodevelopmental Team, CAMHS, and the Learning Disability Service. The postholder will also form close working relationships with the cluster’s Lead Clinician to drive forward improvement initiatives connected to this group of CYP.
The Fife Speech & Language Therapy Service is currently engaged with Better Communication CIC to support the transformation of the delivery of services, ensuring easy access, locality-based services, and a continuum of support. You will influence changes in practice as we consider how to deliver a tiered model of intervention within the areas of family support, environment, workforce, identification, and intervention.
About the Service
The SLT service is professionally managed within the Integrated Primary and Preventative Care Services division of the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. The post will be based in Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline and be part of the Dunfermline/Dalgety Bay geographical cluster of SLTs.
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What We Are Looking For
We are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist who has a proactive approach to working with colleagues to develop a quality service. Fife is a forward-thinking service with a well-developed peer facilitation / supervision model and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and continuing professional development.
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Gemma Wilson, Operational Lead, West Fife CYP SLT Service, gemma.wilson@nhs.scot or telephone 01383 627014
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Eligibility to Work in the UK
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC), or European Economic Area National, please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK.
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Flexible Working and Support
We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Equality and Diversity
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
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