Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job details

• Job reference: 254041
• Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
• Job closing date: 03/08/2026
• Job Type: Allied Health Professions
• Location: East Lothian
• Employment type: Fixed-term
• Hours Per Week: 18
• Job posted date: 20/07/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lothian
• Department: Speech & Language Therapist

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.

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.

• Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
• Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
• Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.

SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

HIGHLY SPECIALIST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST

Band 7 (FIXED TERM FOR 12 MONTHS)

0.5 WTE / 18 hours

Applications are invited from suitably qualified speech and language therapists to join the East and Midlothian CYP SLT team working in the clinical area of complex additional support needs. This post is based in East Lothian and will involve working across a range of settings, including specialist Education provisions, clinics, mainstream schools and Early Years centres, and domiciliary visits.

In addition to significant experience of working in this clinical area, applicants should have a postgraduate qualification in assessment and management of eating, drinking & swallowing disorders. The post holder will work closely with the local team and other professionals in the multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families. The post holder will also take a leading role with senior colleagues in delivering on service developments relating to their area of clinical expertise.

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.

This is a fixed term post for one year in the first instance.

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. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact:Laura Duncan laura.duncan11@nhs.scot or Anna Thompson anna.thompson3@nhs.scot

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

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. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

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.

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.

AI tools like ChatGPT or Copilot can be great for planning and preparing your application—but your answers must be your own.

• Show us the real you: Your application should reflect your skills, experience, and motivations authentically.
• Use AI wisely: It’s fine to use AI for ideas or to check spelling and grammar, but don’t let it write your answers.
• Why this matters: Applications that rely on AI-generated content may be withdrawn. By applying, you confirm your responses are based on your own knowledge and achievements.

Tip: Think of AI as a helper, not a substitute. We want to understand you—not an AI tool.

SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

HIGHLY SPECIALIST SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST

Band 7 (FIXED TERM FOR 12 MONTHS)

0.5 WTE / 18 hours

Applications are invited from suitably qualified speech and language therapists to join the East and Midlothian CYP SLT team working in the clinical area of complex additional support needs. This post is based in East Lothian and will involve working across a range of settings, including specialist Education provisions, clinics, mainstream schools and Early Years centres, and domiciliary visits.

In addition to significant experience of working in this clinical area, applicants should have a postgraduate qualification in assessment and management of eating, drinking & swallowing disorders. The post holder will work closely with the local team and other professionals in the multidisciplinary team to support children, young people and their families. The post holder will also take a leading role with senior colleagues in delivering on service developments relating to their area of clinical expertise.

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.

This is a fixed term post for one year in the first instance.

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. If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact:Laura Duncan laura.duncan11@nhs.scot or Anna Thompson anna.thompson3@nhs.scot

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

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. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

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.