Lead Speech and Language Therapist | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Papworth Everard, CB23 3AB |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7547275/310-MASMH-7547275 |
Summary
If you are an energetic and motivated Speech and Language Therapist with a commitment to excellence in clinical practice and successful outcomes for people with a learning disability, then this role will appeal to you.
You will have the necessary clinical experience and leadership skills to manage SLT resources within the service as part of a dedicated, dynamic and highly skilled multi-disciplinary team within the community. With strong communication skills, a solution focused approach and ability to influence change, you will work alongside other dedicated Clinical Leads and Managers, developing a network of support and resilience within the service.
The Learning Disability Partnership (LDP) is a nationally recognised fully
integrated health and social care service that delivers seamless community support to adults across Cambridgeshire. Your role will be to ensure best practice and clinical governance is maintained across health and social care, and to support our continued success in the delivery of our ambitious Transforming Care Plans.
To be responsible for the delivery of a countywide specialist learning disability Speech and Language Therapy service.
To provide professional leadership & management to Speech and Language Therapy staff (and students) including recruitment, supervision, appraisal and professional development particularly mandatory training.
To provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy input into planning, development, and evaluation of learning disability services, holding responsibility for defined projects as delegated by the LDP management team.
As an autonomous practitioner to be responsible for and manage a highly complex case load of adults with Learning disabilities (including those with challenging behaviour, mental health and forensic needs).
Managing such a case load will include planning and implementing appropriate clinical interventions based on the referral, evaluation, assessment, diagnoses, treatment and monitoring of individuals identified needs.
To lead in Multi disciplinary/ multi agency working within the LDP and with key partners.
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines.
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 fulldetails of responsibilities.
• The post holder will demonstrate highly specialist knowledge and skills and have undertaken appropriate post registration training.
• To have an extensive understanding of Health and Social care policy and legislation for the service user group in relation to your professional practice.
• To independently prioritise, maintain and manage a complex and highly specialist personal caseload within the context of the Learning Disability Partnership.
• To be highly proficient in the assessment, identification, treatment and management of the communication/swallowing needs of the learning disability population. This includes risk assessment, assessment of complex conditions e.g. dysphagia, challenging behaviour including forensic issues, palliative care, mental health, epilepsy etc.
• To be highly proficient in alternative and augmentative communication including manual signing and symbol use to enable training for all staff and carer groups to a high level.
• To enable the use implementation and adaption of alternative and augmentative communication across a variety of communication environments.
• To have good knowledge of and skills in sensory impairment and sensory integration as related to Adults with Learning Disability and to enable clients to access generic services as appropriate.
• To coordinate and facilitate in the making of information that is accessible to service users, staff and carers.
• To plan, implement and regularly review integrated individual support plans for each client in conjunction with team members as appropriate.
• To have knowledge and expertise in multidisciplinary working with parents with learning disability.
• To liaise and communicate effectively and sensitively with other professionals in the MDT and external agencies (e.g. Older peoples teams, Mental Health Teams, Drug and Alcohol, Palliative and Children’s Service’s) providing highly specialist advice as necessary.
• To develop close working relationships where appropriate with other agencies involved in current cases, maintaining the requirement for confidentiality, to promote complementary working relationships and ensuring a quality service regarding client care.
• Lead in the co ordination of complex case work as a case manager for individual cases.
This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Nov 2025