Overview
Are you an experienced band 5 or 6 therapist who is keen to work as part of a specialist multi-disciplinary rehabilitation service?
Fife Speech and Language Therapy Service has an opportunity for you to join the forward thinking team based at Glenrothes Hospital as part of the Fife Stroke and Neuro-Rehabilitation Service. This provides a Fife wide interdisciplinary assessment and neuro-rehabilitation service on an inpatient, outpatient and community basis and supports self management of long term neurological conditions. You will also work with the wider adult acquired SLT team to deliver the service to a designated caseload within the local community and act as SLT service link to enable early input to patients repatriated from Lothian Major Trauma Centre.
Responsibilities
Working with adults with acquired conditions, their families / carers and other professionals you will implement personal outcomes focused intervention. Clinical decision making in the service is supported by Care Aims, so an understanding of this methodology would be an advantage.
You will bring knowledge and experience of working autonomously with adults with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties and will collaborate closely with clinical lead therapists for community, stroke and neuro-rehab. You will be given opportunities to demonstrate leadership within your role and will contribute to the ongoing development of a quality service within the tiered model of intervention.
Service Context
The SLT Service is professionally managed within Fife Health and Social Care Partnership and you will be joining a dynamic service with a well developed peer facilitation / supervision model and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and development. The service supports a blended model of remote, on-site and home working for non-clinical / non-interventional activity associated with individual posts.
Pre-employment and Eligibility
If you would like to discuss this opportunity please contact Ailie Mackay on 01592 226782 or email ailie.mackay@nhs.scot
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.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
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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.
Please note the salary is pro rata for part time hours.
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