Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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Specialist SLT Position
Step into a role where your expertise truly shapes lives.
You’ve built your foundations, now you’re ready for the next challenge. If you’re an experienced SLT looking to take on more autonomy, develop specialist skills & play a key role in shaping high-quality care, we’d love you to join our team.
We’re a supportive, collaborative & busy community service where your ideas are welcomed and your professional growth really matters.
About the Role
As a Specialist SLT, you’ll manage a more complex caseload, using your clinical judgement to deliver evidence-based assessment and intervention to children, including those with additional needs. You’ll work closely with families, schools, carers and MDT partners, offering guidance, training and support to ensure communication and/or swallowing needs are understood and managed effectively. You’ll also play a valued role in service development, supervision of colleagues, and contribute to quality improvement. You will take an active role in the assessment and differential diagnosis of ASD.
We’ll support your ambitions with specialist CPD, regular supervision, and opportunities to deepen your expertise in areas that excite you.
If you’re ready for a role where your voice is valued & your expertise makes a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. Your next step starts here.
Location
The successful candidates will be based either in the Huntingdon area or our North Cambridge locality.
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Interviews
Interviews will be held in person only as there will be clinical observations.
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 13th October 2026.
Key Responsibilities
The post holder will independently manage a specialist caseload in the locality and the surrounding area. The client group is children who have a range of difficulties in understanding and/or using speech and language. You will work independently with access to more senior colleagues as needed. You will provide supervision and guidance to colleagues.
Essential Criteria
- Qualified SLT with HCPC registration
- Demonstrated experience managing a varied/complex caseload
- Strong clinical reasoning and autonomous decision-making
- Ability to provide guidance, supervision or training to others
- Excellent communication and partnership-working across the MDT
- Commitment to person-centred, evidence-based practice
- Confident, reflective and motivated to develop specialist skills
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.
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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
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katie Thompson
- Job title: Area & Clinical Lead - Cambridge
- Email address: katie.thompson1@nhs.net
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