Job Advert
Post Title: Speech and Language Therapist
Location: Carnegie Unit, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline
Salary/Banding: Band 5 or 6 depending on experience
Hours : 30 hours/week (0.8 WTE)
Are you a new speech & language therapy graduate looking for your first post or a more experienced speech & language therapist seeking the opportunity to work in a new location? We are looking for an individual to join our Speech and Language Therapy Team for Children and Young People in Dunfermline.
The team provides a SLT service to children, young people and their families/carers in the local community. The workload involves a focus at a universal and targeted level as well as providing a service to a designated caseload of children and young people with the full range of speech, language and communication needs.
You would join a creative and forward-thinking team who apply well established reflective practice and clinical decision-making models based on the Care Aims Intended Outcomes Framework and incorporating Good Conversations and Personal Outcomes approaches. The team consists of therapists with a range of skills and special interests, support practitioners and is led by an experienced lead clinician. You would be based with colleagues in Queen Margaret Hospital and work across health, education and other settings in the Dunfermline/Rosyth/Dalgety Bay areas to deliver personal outcome focused intervention within a tiered model of service delivery.
You will be supported to manage your own workload, maintain appropriate records and work collaboratively with the clients, carers and other agencies to enable and maximise self-management. You will have the opportunity to contribute to ongoing development work using quality improvement methodology. Where clinically appropriate, we support a blended model of clinic based and home working as part of our regular working patterns. We routinely offer a blend of remote and face to face therapy sessions.
Fife SLT is a lifespan service which is professionally managed within Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. You would be joining a dynamic service, with a robust appraisal system and a strong commitment to distributed leadership, staff wellbeing and development. We have a well-developed peer facilitation/supervision model for speech & language therapists in our service.
If you have not yet graduated as a speech & language therapist but are interested in this opportunity, please contact us to have a conversation.
For Informal Enquiries please contact Gemma Wilson, Operational Lead – West Fife, Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapy Service, Carnegie Unit , Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, KY12 0SU by Email: gemma.wilson@nhs.scot
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Scotland is reducing their full-time working week from 37.5 to 37 hours per week from 1 April 2024 but with no change in pay. This reduction will also be applied pro rata for part time staff. This advert and any subsequent offer/contract of employment therefore reflects the new working hours. However, as not all service areas will be able to adopt the 37 hour working week immediately from 1 April 2024, you may be required to work up to an additional 30 minutes per week for a temporary period for which you would be paid until the service you are working in changes rosters or working patterns to accommodate the new reduced working week. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Recruiting Board.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK) or Irish National, you are required to confirm your right to work in your application.
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.