An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Children & Young People’s Occupational Therapy Service.
The Fife Wide Children & Young People’s Occupational Therapy Service is a dynamic, quality-driven team dedicated to improving the lives of children, young people, and their families. Our work is underpinned by a commitment to upholding children’s rights, promoting equity, accessibility, and inclusion, and applying the social model of disability to enable participation in meaningful life activities.
We operate within a robust Clinical Governance framework aligned with local and national priorities, ensuring safe, effective, and person-centred care. Our service embraces innovation, including digital health solutions, to enhance clinical delivery and outcomes.
Responsibilities
* Support children, young people and their families, delivering interventions at universal, targeted, and specialist levels, tailored to population needs.
* Manage a generic caseload of children and young people from birth to school-leaving age.
* Apply excellent clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice across a range of paediatric conditions to support participation and wellbeing.
* Champion inclusive approaches that remove barriers and empower children and families to achieve their goals.
Qualifications
* Strong clinical expertise in working with children, young people and families and a commitment to continuous professional development.
* Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with families, schools, and multi-agency partners.
* A passion for promoting rights-based practice, equity, and accessibility in all aspects of service delivery.
You will be joining our supportive and innovative service that operates a robust clinical supervision model and has staff wellbeing at the heart of its culture. Reflective practice and effective decision making is embedded within the service and daily practice.
Benefits and Working Pattern
5/7 working week and flexible working arrangements exist to meet individual and service needs. As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro‑rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.
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.
Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
Contact
For informal enquiries, please contact Sarah Negrette – Head of Children & Young People’s Occupational Therapy – sarah.negrette@nhs.scot.
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.
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 Immigration 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 website here.
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes.
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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