Speech & Language Therapist (Band 5)

NHS National Services Scotland; Dunfermline; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS National Services Scotland is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to join the Children and Young People’s Service across Fife on a fixed-term basis. You will support universal and targeted interventions, working with children, young people and families, in blended clinic/home settings.

Based in East or West Fife, you will contribute to ongoing development, quality improvement and collaborative practice within a forward-thinking team led by an experienced lead clinician.

Qualifications

• Graduate in Speech and Language Therapy
• Eligible for UK practice and registration
• Willing to work across Community/Children and Young People services

Responsibilities

• Provide speech and language therapy to children and young people across universal and targeted levels
• Assess, diagnose and treat communication and feeding/swallowing needs
• Collaborate with families, carers and other agencies to enable self-management

Job description

Various locations across NHS Fife - 4 x 36 hours fixed term.

Are you a speech & language therapy graduate looking for your first post or a recently qualified speech & language therapist seeking to further develop your skills after your first year in practice? We are looking for individuals to join our Speech and Language Therapy Service to provide support in our children and young people’s service (CYP) for a fixed term.

Our CYP team provides a SLT service to children, young people and their families/carers in their local communities as well as developing supports to meet needs across our service area. Your workload will involve 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 one of our Service bases in East or West Fife 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.

We are currently engaged with Better Communication CIC and are implementing the ‘Balanced System’ as part of a lifespan approach to transforming our service.

Informal Enquiries:

Gemma Wilson , Operational Lead – West Fife, Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapy Service, Carnegie Unit , Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, KY12 0SU on Email: [e-mail]

Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity –

Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager. The secondment policy can be found here Hub Blink (joinblink.com) If you do not have approval for a secondment from your current line manager, you will not be able to progress your application for a fixed term post. External applicants, with continuous NHS Service, must also have in place a secondment agreement, from their existing board to apply for this post.

A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service.

As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK websitehere.

It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsoredBEFORE submitting your application form.

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.

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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