Speech and Language Therapist / Experienced Speech and Language Therapist (Band

Are you a new Speech & Language therapy graduate looking for your first post or a more experienced Speech & Language Therapist seeking a new opportunity?

We are looking for an individual to join our Speech and Language Therapy Team for Children and Young People in the Kirkcaldy/Cowdenbeath cluster.

The team provides a SLT service to children, young people and their families/carers in the local community which includes some areas of high deprivation. 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 Cowdenbeath Clinic and work across the Kirkcaldy/Cowdenbeath area 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.

Part time hours will be considered.

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 /

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