Adult Acute Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Cambridge is seeking a full-time Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join its Adult Acute Service. The role focuses on providing specialist services for patients with complex disorders and includes responsibilities such as instrumental swallowing assessment and service development. Candidates must have extensive experience and competence in dysphagia assessment. This position offers excellent support for career development and promotes a diverse working environment.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Flexible working arrangements

Reduced cost travel options

Qualifications

• Experience in service development and training.
• Independently managing complex patient needs.
• Competence in instrumental dysphagia assessment is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical input to patients with complex disorders.
• Lead on service development in the area of specialism.
• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams for optimal patient care.

Skills

Sound clinical skills

Extensive experience

Dysphagia skills

Complex caseload management

Education

Speech and Language Therapy degree

Job description

A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Are you a highly motivated, skilled and experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) interested in joining SLT Services at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in the vibrant city of Cambridge?

We are delighted to be in a position to appoint a full time Band 7 Advanced Specialist SLTs to join our well established and highly regarded Adult Acute Service. The post will contribute to the provision of highly specialist services across the full range of acute specialties, including instrumental swallowing assessment and diagnosis.

Experience of service development, developing and delivering training, student supervision and close MDT working is required. Sound clinical skills and extensive experience, including highly specialist dysphagia skills and complex caseload management in the acute setting are also essential.

To fulfil the Band 7 role in the acute setting at Addenbrooke's, competence in instrumental dysphagia assessment and / or tracheostomy management is essential.

Training and development needs will be identified and supported alongside an agreed personal development plan.

To contribute to the provision of specialist SLT services within the SLT Adult Acute Service. To provide highly specialist clinical input to a defined caseload including patients with complex disorders, prioritising needs and managing workload independently. To lead on the development of services within the area of specialism and to act as a resource for other therapists in the area of expertise. To provide cover for the Senior Specialist in service and team coordination, operational management and representation at relevant forums as required.

With the support of the Team Lead and in close collaboration with SLT and the multi-disciplinary teams across the acute Wards, you will provide a highly specialist service to patients referred. This will include maximising the communication and swallowing potential of patients and supporting safe discharge.

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.


This vacancy will close at midnight on 3rd September 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 18th September 2025

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.








This advert closes on Wednesday 3 Sep 2025