Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 July 2025 |
| Location: | Peterborough, PE3 6DB |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7221647/310-CYPF-7221647 |
Summary
We are delighted to offer an opportunity to specialise in working with children & young people with complex needs and dysphagia. This post is suitable for a therapist with experience of working with children with complex needs or as a developing specialist post. If the successful post holder does not currently have Post Graduate Dysphagia Training we will look at funding and provide support and supervision through this process (via Manchester Post Basic Dysphagia Course).
Peterborough speech and language therapy team are an innovative and supportive team committed to providing effective services to children and young people aged 0-19years. We have a strong ethos of clinical support and supervision and provide regular CPD opportunities across the year. We work within a range of settings including early years settings, schools, homes and specialist settings. We work closely as an MDT and have good links within AHP’s.
Peterborough is diverse city with excellent transport links. Due to being a small city we remain as one team which enables therapists to frequently link in with each other and access specialist support where needed.
If you are a first-class clinician with strong communication and interpersonal skills and enjoy working flexibly within various teams, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will be responsible for the management of a specialist clinical caseload of preschool and school-age children with complex needs across a range of clinical settings, including special schools. Depending on service need the postholder may also hold a school age, speech and language caseload.
The post holder will work independently with access to more senior colleagues as needed, be responsible for supervision of more junior colleagues and a first point of contact for the preschools and schools they are working in for the service.
If the post holder has a post graduate qualification in dysphagia, then they would be supported to manage an eating and drinking caseload with children aged 6month+. If the post holder does not yet have this qualification, then we would look at funding this and provide appropriate support required.
This post is suitable for a therapist with experience in the specialism or as a developing specialist post.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
1. Manages own time and prioritises workload
2. Manages caseload within departmental standards
3. Plans and delivers multi-agency training in consultation with lead therapist
4. Identifies appropriate assessment, intervention and management of children with complex speech, language and communication needs
5. Involved as a team in the assessment of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
6. Identifies needs of a specialist caseload
7. Modifies clinical intervention based on outcomes and assessment findings
8. Applies a range of communication strategies to support the child’s communication needs
9. Communicates complex condition specific information to carers, teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals.
10. Can be a member of multi-agency care teams
11. Provides training and support to others regarding the appropriate management and care of children
12. To initiate the planning and delivery of training for other professionals and/or parents as appropriate
This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025