Advanced Speech and Language Therapist

We are delighted to offer an opportunity to a Speech and Language Therapist with specialist skills in the area of stammering to continue developing their expertise in this area. This post is suitable for someone who would like to develop their skills into/or has already been working at the level as an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist.

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.

We are a friendly and supportive team committed to providing effective services to children and young people (CYP) in Peterborough.

With a strong ethos of clinical support and supervision, our dynamic team provides evidence-based advice, training and interventions to CYP, their families and education staff.

The Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is a 0-19 service which assesses, supports, and provides therapy to children with speech, language, communication and feeding difficulties. We aim to provide services at a universal, targeted and specialist levels., The delivery of specialist Speech and Language Therapy for children and young people who stammer which includes children who are over 7 and/or complex in presentation across the service.The post holder will be responsible for the autonomous assessment and management of a highly specialist and complex caseload of young people who stammer and have other communication disorders which may present with additional diagnoses and emotional and behavioural difficulties. The post holder will be responsible for management of all referrals relating to children who stammer who are over 7 years of age and have an oversight of the stammering pathway.The post holder will be required to use their specialist clinical skills in the planning, development, and evaluation of the Stammering pathways, including contributing to defined projects as delegated by the Clinical Lead or Service manager. This involves supporting the local team in effective and equitable clinical decision making, ensuring that a good
quality service is delivered and maintained in balance with the needs of the entire service. The post holder will be required to use your specialist clinical skills to develop and provide a range of training packages relating to supporting the communication needs of service users, to equip support staff and others with the specialist communication skills required to work with them.

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 andempowering 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.