Speech and Language Therapist / Experienced Speech and Language Therapist - Annex 20 (Band 5 or 6)
Job reference: 253873
Salary: Band 5 (£34,544 - £43,039)
Job closing date: 19/11/2026
Job Type: Allied Health Professions
Location: Various sites
Employment type: Permanent
Hours Per Week: Various
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife
Department: Speech and Language Therapy

Salary/Banding: Band 5/6 depending on experience
Vacancies: 2 x post available

• Adamson Hospital 28.8 hours
• Randolph Wemyss Hospital 36 hours

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 NE Fife/Levenmouth 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 Randolph Wemyss Memorial Hospital/Adamson Hospital and work across the Levenmouth/NE Fife area to deliver personal outcome focused intervention within a tiered model of service delivery.

If you are already working as a band 5 or 6 therapist you will be given the opportunity to develop your clinical knowledge, skills and experience and will have the opportunity to demonstrate leadership within your role. If newly / recently qualified you will be allocated a mentor and supported to complete the RCSLT NQP Competency Framework and work towards progression to band 6 within 2 years of registration with HCPC, where appropriate evidence is submitted.

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.

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
Email: gemma.wilson@nhs.scot

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.

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