As part of Mental Health – Scotland’s Transition and Recovery and CAMHS National Service Specification, an opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced and driven Occupational Therapist (OT) to develop the role of Occupational Therapy within our Child Learning Disability Service. The clinician will join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team alongside our established and continually developing Adult OT Learning Disability Service. You should be able to demonstrate evidence of postgraduate learning, independently manage a complex caseload providing assessment, treatment and evaluation of Occupational Therapy through excellent clinical reasoning, communication and organisational skills. The Occupational Therapy service offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support the development of the Child Learning Disability service in Fife to improve clinical delivery and safe and person centred outcomes reflecting NHS values and local and national strategies. The Occupational Therapy service is a quality and outcomes driven service which aims to ensure individuals receive necessary treatment at the appropriate time. Service delivery is based on the Model of Human Occupation and reflects a range of legislation pertinent to this client group. You will utilise and develop the research evidence base for practice and act as a designated Fieldwork Practice Educator to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as supervision of junior staff. We offer a challenging and stimulating work environment with personal development opportunities, peer review and supervision. For informal enquiries, please contact Fiona Vaughan, Occupational Therapy Team Lead, Lynebank Hospital on 01383 565223. 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. 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 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 website here. For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found here. 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 sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form. 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. 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.