If you’re looking for the next step in your career in healthcare, you’ve just discovered it.
At Upper Springland we provide long-term and permanent residential care and support for people with a range of disabilities. We help people lead their lives to the full, providing for any needs they may have and to provide meaningful and exciting community interaction within Perth and the surrounding areas.
About the Role
We are looking to recruit a Speech & Language Therapist to work as part of Allied Health service within Upper Springland. You will be required to provide an effective speech and language therapy service to enable and support adults who have complex needs. You will support and enable them to have control, choice and equality in daily life to the benefit of their health and wellbeing.
You will provide specialist advice, supervision and clinical support to more junior therapists, and care staff.
You will ideally have a degree/diploma in Speech & Language Therapy and be HCPC registered. You will have clinical expertise which reflects evidence based practice in the specialist field of multiple and complex needs.
The ability to manage and prioritise your own work load is essential as are well developed organisational and communication skills.
You will have experience of good interdisciplinary working with a holistic outlook and delivering an effective customer focused service. Dysphagia and Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) experience is essential.
What you need to know:
This post is open to all experienced SLTs, however, due to its part time & flexible nature, it may suit someone who is semi-retired, looking for a 2nd job or to work part time around other commitments. The working hours of this role are flexible, the 15 hours can be worked over 2, 3 or 5 days - we will consider all requests.
Job description - Speech and Language Therapist (UPS)
Working with Capability Scotland brings you lots of benefits:
Closing date - 03/12/24 with interviews being held on 10/12/24
You will hear from us within three weeks of the noted closing date.
For more information on this role, you can call Erin on 01738 632 995 using reference CS141124 erin.wilson@capability.scot
General information
Capability Scotland is committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued, and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
A copy of Capability Scotland’s Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request from the HR Team.