Lead Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

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. 

Main duties of the job

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. 

Working for our organisation

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. 

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