Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Experts at Hand
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About the Role
We are seeking experienced and innovative Speech and Language Therapists to provide locality leadership for the new Experts at Hand model across Bedfordshire and Luton. Working across education, early years, and community settings, you will help develop an integrated universal, targeted, and specialist offer that strengthens early identification, builds workforce capability, and supports inclusive practice for children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs.
Combining specialist clinical expertise with consultation, coaching, supervision, service improvement, and system leadership, you will support EaH practitioners and the wider Speech and Language Therapy workforce to embed new ways of working. You will also maintain a small targeted-plus and specialist caseload for children and young people with more complex needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical and locality leadership for implementation of the Experts at Hand model within a defined area.
- Work with SaLT Locality Leads and multidisciplinary partners to develop an integrated universal, targeted, and specialist offer across education, early years, and community settings.
- Act as a senior clinical resource, providing specialist advice, consultation, second opinions, and collaborative problem-solving.
- Lead consultation, coaching, training, and communication-environment audits to strengthen the graduated response and build workforce capability.
- Coproduce, implement, and evaluate targeted interventions at individual, group, and whole-setting level.
- Provide clinical supervision and competency development for SaLTs, Support Practitioners, and apprentices.
- Maintain a small targeted-plus and specialist caseload, undertaking assessment, differential diagnosis, intervention, and outcome evaluation for children and young people with complex communication needs.
- Participate in locality multidisciplinary and Team Around the School arrangements, working with children, families, and partners.
- Contribute to workforce planning, quality improvement, and service evaluation, using activity and outcome data to demonstrate impact and develop the model.
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About Us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high-quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply, and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Fiona Scarlett
- Job title: Head of Service
- Email address: fiona.scarlett@btinternet.com
- Telephone number: 07427500924
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 17th August 2026.
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