Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job details

• Job reference: 253452
• Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
• Job closing date: 24/07/2026
• Job Type: Allied Health Professions
• Location: NHS Lothian
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 21.4
• Job posted date: 10/07/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: SPEECH AND LANGUGAE THERAPY (CAMHS)

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SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Highly Specialist SLT (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services)

One Year Fixed Term

Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to join the team of SLTs working within NHS Lothian CAMHS on a fixed term, one year, basis. The SLT team works within local CAMHS Outpatient teams to support and develop the delivery of the Neurodevelopmental Pathway across NHS Lothian, as part of a mental health service.

Key result areas for the CAMHS SLT team include:

Case holding, as part of the neurodevelopment assessment pathway, often in the context of mental health considerations.

Training and supporting colleagues and families to recognise and appropriately support speech, language and communication skills; and eating, drinking and swallowing, in the context of working within mental health services.

Providing specialist SLT assessments and supports.

Creating and delivering environmental adaptations and supports for children and young people with neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions.

Promoting a partnership approach to enhance communication supports across settings using evidence-based, targeted approaches.

Evaluating and reporting on the quality improvements delivered through SLT.

SLTs are co-located with CAMHS colleagues and work flexibly across their bases in East Lothian, Midlothian, North & South Edinburgh and West Lothian. The team are line managed by SLT in partnership with CAMHS and are part of the Single System SLT service for professional networking, appraisal and CPD.

You will be a qualified Speech & Language Therapist with experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of neurodevelopmental and communication conditions in Health and Education settings. You will contribute to case management, assessment and evidence-based interventions as part of a multidisciplinary team and be familiar with monitoring and reporting outcomes on this work. You will contribute to service developments, as a SLT working with a mental health service. You will be familiar with national developments in Mental Health and the neurodevelopmental pathway and keen to promote the role of SLT in this field of work.

The Speech and Language Therapy Service is innovative and supportive. It is committed to the principles of improvement methodology to provide a high quality service focused on the child and family’s needs. All staff have a personal development plan and are encouraged to extend their skills through a variety of CPD activities.

Applicants must be registered with HCPC.

Informal enquiries to: Catriona Black, Service Lead, catriona.black@nhs.scot or Kerry Costello, CAMHS Clinical Lead, kerry.costello@nhs.scot

Have you seen our AHP Innovation, Research and Improvement intentions? Our exciting AHP strategy aims to cultivate AHP potential in NHS Lothian: https://weare.nhslothian.scot/hcprofessionsresearch/building-research-capacity-and-capability/allied-health-professions-research/

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification.

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Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.