Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist


Company:	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	22 Jul 2026
Closing date:	21 Aug 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Speech and Language Therapy Team within Cleft.NET.East, the East of England regional multidisciplinary Cleft Lip and Palate Service based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.

We are seeking an organised and flexible clinician with significant experience and a strong interest in cleft-related speech disorders and/or non-cleft Velopharyngeal Dysfunction (VPD). This role offers the opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills while contributing to specialist multidisciplinary care for children and adults across the region and supporting ongoing service development.

Experience within a specialist Cleft Centre is highly desirable, however, applications from other services are warmly welcomed and provide an excellent opportunity to gain insight into specialist cleft work and experience within a dedicated regional team.

Based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, with regular travel to Outreach settings, you will be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team, independently providing Cleft Specialist SLT input to the full range of multi-disciplinary and uni-disciplinary Clinics run within the service. This includes regular multi-disciplinary combined Clinics both centrally and in Outreach settings, Velopharyngeal Investigation (videofluoroscopy) Clinics and SLT Assessment and Intervention Outpatient Clinics.

You will be responsible for your own SLT caseload including at least one Outreach area. Developing and maintaining positive and collaborative relationships with colleagues in Community Services is essential as is an ability and willingness to travel throughout the network as we run regular multi-disciplinary and uni-disciplinary Clinics across the region.

Another core aspect of the role is to be part of delivering the on-going teaching, training and support that we provide to less experienced members of our team at the centre, our community and multi-disciplinary colleagues and students.

Audit, service evaluation and research is also integral to our service and, together with innovation, a key aspect of our on-going service plans to ensure the quality and sustainability of the service and the pursuit of evidence to inform best practice. You will therefore be involved in the development and delivery of these activities and encouraged and supported to develop ideas and projects.

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.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

The advert will close at midnight on 2 August 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 18 August 2026.

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 Sunday 2 Aug 2026

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