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Are you a current Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist looking to be supported in your development towards Band 6? Fife Speech and Language Therapy have an exciting opportunity for either a Band 5 or Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join their children and young people’s service. This fixed term/secondment post is part-time (3 days a week) and is available for up to 18 months from the beginning of March 2022.
You will bring enthusiasm, knowledge and experience (undergraduate or postgraduate) of working with children with developmental speech, language and communication needs. If you are newly qualified, you will be supported by a mentor and supported to complete the RCSLT NQP Competencies Framework.
You would be based at the Carnegie Unit, Queen Margaret Hospital and be part of the team providing a service to the children and young people of Dunfermline and West Fife and their families. The team of mixed grade therapists and support practitioners is supported by a lead clinician and deliver personal outcome focused intervention within a tiered model of service delivery. Workload will include 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 be joining 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.
Fife SLT, a lifespan service, is professionally managed within Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. You will be joining a dynamic service with a well developed peer facilitation/supervision model, robust appraisal system and a strong commitment to distributed leadership, staff wellbeing and development.
For informal enquiries, please contact Laura Hogg, Clinical Lead, Dunfermline / Dalgety Bay Cluster, West Fife - Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapy Service, Carnegie Unit, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, KY12 0SU on 01383 627014.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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.