NHS Lothian is excited to be recruiting a Speech and language Therapist based at Western General Hospital.
This vacancy is for a committed, innovative, motivated and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of the speech and language therapy team in the Western General Hospital.
The postholder will work across both medical and oncology teams to provide a comprehensive speech and language therapy service to in-patients and out-patients.
Staff responsibility - Supervise and support clinical workload of SLT assistant and SLT students.
A SLT degree qualification or equivalent and HCPC registration is essential for this post.
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.
