Job Advert
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.
Are you interested in a Speech and Language Therapy career in the NHS? Would you like the opportunity to gain extra “hands on” experience before you qualify? Would you like to start earning sooner rather than later, and be a member of the NHS workforce before qualification? If so then read on…..
Speech and Language Therapy teams across NHS Grampian are delighted to offer paid Internships with opportunities to work during Summer 2023. Applications are invited from Speech and Language Therapy students due to qualify in 2024.
The posts will offer you clinical work for up to 12 weeks over your summer break 2023 before go back to complete your course. The contract duration will depend on service needs and length of summer break for the students who are appointed.
Successful applicants will:
- be employed as Band 3 Health Care Support Workers – SLT Interns within NHS Grampian.
- be eligible to stay on as NHS Grampian bank employees and therefore eligible to work additional shifts through the year or during other uni holidays should course work allow.
- be able to apply for Band 5 posts starting summer 2024 as an an existing member of the team – so an internal applicant for your first post, already working for the NHS and with an SLT line manager and supervisor who can provide your references.
- be part of an informal peer group with other interns at the same stage in training
Application is via the NHS Scotland advert which is live now – find it here:
Please ensure you state your preferred client group (children, adults, mixed) and preferred location (Aberdeen city, Aberdeenshire, Moray) in your application.
Successful applicants will be allocated to work in one of the following teams:
Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnerhsip Speech and Language Therapy team http://www.aslt.scot.nhs.uk/
Aberdeenshire Health and Social Care Partnership https://www.facebook.com/BabbletoBanter
Moray Health and Social Care Partnership https://www.facebook.com/MoraySLT/
Adult Acute SLT service at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Combined Child Health Speech and Language Therapy Service – Paediatric Acute at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Child Development Teams
Interested? Get in touch: email gram.sltcommittee@nhs.scot and state “Internship” in the subject line.