Women, Children and Families Service

Allied Health Professions

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Band 7     37.5 Hours

[Salary Scale: £39,300 - £46,006 ]

You will work within the NHS Tayside Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service as a Band 7 Highly Specialist SLT in Dundee locality. You will have an interest in quality improvement and leadership.

Your clinical role will be to support children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs including a specific remit for children with social communication difficulties.

Your role will also include support and mentoring to SLT team members in this specialist area. You will also support staff in your role as Hub Lead in Dundee West.

You will bring extensive skills, knowledge and experience in working with both pre-school and school aged children and experience and understanding of how to support children with complex needs across a variety of educational placements.

You will also be involved in delivering programmes and activities to reduce inequalities as part of the service wide work at a universal and targeted level.

The work is wide ranging and includes joint work with partners in other agencies

You will join a supportive team where professional development is supported and encouraged. You will be based in the Speech and Language Therapy departments in Dundee locality but may be required to work flexibly across NHS Tayside in schools and community settings as well as in health settings and be willing to travel to a number of sites.

Informal enquiries to: Norma Patrick     norma.patrick@nhs.scot   Tel 01382 835100

                                   Sheena Flack     sheena.flack@nhs.scot      Tel 01382 346550

Hours of work are:  37.5 hours  per week

NHS Tayside is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community