Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job details

• Job reference: 249801
• Salary: Band 7 (£52,845 - £61,466)
• Job closing date: 07/08/2026
• Job Type: Allied Health Professions
• Location: Queen Margaret Hospital
• Employment type: Permanent
• Hours Per Week: 36
• Job posted date: 16/07/2026
• Employer (NHS Board): NHS Fife
• Department: Children & Young People's Speech and Language Therapy Service- DLD Team

We are delighted to share this opportunity for an individual who has a special interest in developing services to children with additional support needs to join our Children and Young People’s Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) service.

The postholder will work with children, young people, their families/carers and other professionals to develop and implement personal outcome focused intervention. The caseload will be mainly children and young people with complex speech and language difficulties and/or eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

This post offers an opportunity to work alongside a range of SLTs and other professionals in our child development centres, specialist and mainstream education provisions, those working in the Neurodevelopmental Team, CAMHS and the Learning Disability Service. The postholder will also form close working relationships with the cluster’s Lead Clinician to drive forward improvement initiatives connected to this group of CYP.

The Fife Speech & Language Therapy Service is currently engaged with Better Communication CIC to support transformation of delivery of services, ensuring easy access, locality-based services and a continuum of support. You will influence changes in practice as we consider how to deliver a tiered model of intervention within the areas of family support, environment, workforce, identification and intervention.

The SLT service is professionally managed within the Integrated Primary and Preventative Care Services division of the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership. The post will be based in Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline and be part of the Dunfermline/Dalgety Bay geographical cluster of SLTs.

We are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist who has a proactive approach to working with colleagues to develop a quality service. Fife is a forward-thinking service with a well-developed peer facilitation / supervision model and a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and continuing professional development.

Informal Enquiries: Gemma Wilson, Operational Lead, West Fife CYP SLT Service, gemma.wilson@nhs.scot or telephone 01383 627014

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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.

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.