AQW 7603/22-27 Written question to the Minister of Health
To ask the Minister of Health how many full-time equivalent vacancies for speech and language therapists there are in each of Health and Social Care Trust.
Asked by Nick Mathison MLA on 27 February 2024
- Answered
- Written
- After due date
- Tabled
- 27 February 2024
- Answer due by
- 13 March 2024
- Answered
- 15 March 202417 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Health
- Priority question
- No
Answer
Information on the full-time equivalent of vacancies is not collected centrally. However, information on the position count of HSC vacancies actively being recruited by staff group, is published by my Department on a quarterly basis, at the link below.
https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/articles/staff-vacancies
Information on the number of speech and language therapist positions actively being recruited to in each Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust as at 31 December 2023, most recent information available, is detailed in the following table.
HSC Speech & Language Therapist Vacancies Actively Being Recruited, as at 31 December 2023
| HSC Trust | HSC Speech & Language Therapist Vacancies |
| Belfast | 19 |
| Northern | 3 |
| South Eastern | 13 |
| Southern | 9 |
| Western | 12 |
Source: NI HSC Active Recruitment Statistics, DoH