About this role
Job summary
Join our passionate, forward-thinking, supportive team and take a leading role in shaping high-quality community paediatric SLT services. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician ready to step into a senior position with real influence and autonomy.
You'll co-ordinate and line manage the North Cambridge locality for the community paediatric SLT service, managing your own diverse caseload of pre-school and school-age children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs.
Your expertise will guide colleagues through second opinions, collaborative problem-solving and shared clinical decision-making. You will attend senior leadership service meetings, and chair your own locality meetings. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on clinical challenge, values collaborative working and wants to make a visible impact on children, families and the wider service. If you're ready to lead, inspire and shape the future of community paediatric therapy in Cambridgeshire, we'd love to hear from you.
A typical day involves:
Assessing and providing specialist intervention for children Supporting colleagues to manage their caseloads and time Providing clinical supervision Attending senior leadership meetings The ability to work as part of the team and to have a flexible approach to work is essential.
Interviews: 22 July 2026
Should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 1 July
Main duties of the job
The post holder will have delegated responsibility for locality co-ordination and clinical management of the community paediatric service in a defined geographic locality. They will independently manage a community caseload in the locality. The client group is children who have a range of difficulties in understanding and/or using speech and language. S/he will provide supervision and guidance to other SLT colleagues. The locality co-ordinator's role will involve setting priorities, initiating developments and carrying out audit in discussion with the Area & Clinical Lead. They will provide training in the area of clinical specialism acting as a resource to the wider multi-disciplinary team. They will assume delegated responsibility for appraisal of junior colleagues. They will be a member of the senior staff team.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Job description Job responsibilities
Main Duties and responsibilities
To independently manage a caseload of pre-school and school age children who have speech, and language communication difficulties.
To undertake a range of assessments, both standardised and non-standardised, taking account of medical, social and educational factors, which combined with highly specialist theoretical knowledge will lead to differential diagnosis
To plan, deliver and evaluate highly specialist intervention following professional guidelines and agreed service standards
As part of that process, to plan appropriate long term and short-term goals working towards discharge
To undertake administrative duties connected with the caseload including maintenance of case notes and provision of written reports, following service standards
To ensure that all work is carried out in close collaboration with all those involved in childrens care so that the approach to intervention and support is co-ordinated and comprehensive
To make onward referral as appropriate
To identify any variations to service delivery or demands and inform the Area & Clinical Lead of the likely impact on the service
Policy & service development
To initiate, develop policy, clinical guidelines, clinical governance and service development within the clinical specialism and locality, in discussion with the Area & Clinical Lead; this will involve piloting of new initiates with a view to implementing changes across the whole service
To develop care protocols and innovative practice in area of clinical specialism interpreting national and local initiatives
To be familiar with local and national standards and to work in line with these
To ensure that parents/carers are aware of the standards they should expect from the speech and language therapy service
Communication
To ensure effective communication of complex condition-related information to parents/carers regarding the assessment process, assessment findings and planned intervention, including engagement of parents/carers in intervention
To ensure children are involved in goal setting and decision making around their own care as appropriate to their age, developmental level and language skills
To ensure parents/carers are involved in decision making around their childs care including discharge from the service
To liaise effectively and work in partnership with other professionals (particularly teachers and teaching assistants), including the development of shared goals for intervention
To ensure effective communication with and between all speech and language therapists and assistants in the locality in order to ensure the delivery of a good quality service in the locality
To write reports on children, in line with service standards, including contributions to statutory assessment
To offer advice to others concerning support for individual children
To actively contribute to case conferences/ review meetings for children on the caseload
To recognise how and when information may be shared within the bounds of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act
To attend SLT team meetings, actively contributing as appropriate
Contribute to EECs internal communication strategies ensuring effective two-way communication and engagement within the organisation
Contribute to EECs external communication strategies working with the Head of Communications to raise awareness and promote the reputation of EECs services
Training
To initiate the planning and delivery of training for other professionals and/or parents as appropriate.
To actively participate in and /or organise in-service training and other courses as appropriate to promote professional development
To identify training needs in the multi-disciplinary team needed to support the care of children on the caseload
To remain compliant with all mandatory training
People Management
To take delegated responsibility for co-ordination and clinical management of the community paediatric service to North Cambridge.
Responsible for day-to-day supervision of staff in the North Cambridge locality.
Maintaining own professional development and requirement to take part in appraisal and KSF process
To supervise and clinically support SLT assistants/ teaching assistants/volunteers as appropriate
To act as lead clinician across the service for clinical specialism including representing the SLT service in multi-agency working in that area delegated by the Service Lead
To supervise and clinically support speech and language therapy colleagues in specialist area
To mentor/supervise more junior SLTs providing support, including objective setting and review and contributing to induction
To provide clinical placements for SLT students including contributing to the assessment of exam placements
To take on delegated responsibility for the recruitment and selection process when required
To be an active member of the Senior Staff Team, attending meetings and taking on tasks as necessary
Research & development/audit
To participate in development of policy, clinical guidelines, clinical governance and service development through discussion and involvement in projects as appropriate, including innovative practice, in collaboration with colleagues
Responsibility for specific, clearly defined projects as delegated by the Area & Clinical Lead
To develop care protocols and innovative practice in area of clinical specialism
To be familiar with local and national standards and to work in line with these
To ensure that parents/carers are aware of the standards they should expect from the speech and language therapy service
Clinical and Practice Governance
Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient/family/staff/records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act.
Any data that is taken/shared as part of a phone call or transported, faxed or transferred electronically must be undertaken with regard to the Trust Information Governance and Information Security policies.
The post holder must adhere to the Trust risk assessment and risk management processes
The post holder must adhere to infection control policies and procedures
It is a condition of your employment that you are currently registered with HCPC and it is your responsibility to maintain your professional registration.
Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust.
The post holder must participate in clinical and other audits as required
Provide patients and their families /carers with information on standards they should expect from the team
Participate in clinical supervision on a regular basis
The post holder is required to participate in relevant emergency preparedness process for their team.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training Essential
Degree or Post graduate equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy Registered Member of RCSLT Registered Member of HCPC Successful completion of management short courses or evidence of management gained through experience
Desirable
Licensed Elklan trainer
Experience Essential
Extensive relevant post graduate experience
Desirable
Previous experience supervising less experienced colleagues
Skills Essential
Well established knowledge about developmental speech and language disorders Excellent communication skills including the ability to convey sensitive or distressing information to parents/carers Ability to work flexibly as part of a team Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
Safeguarding Essential
Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people/vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances
Working Within Professional Boundaries Essential
Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others Demonstrates professional curiosity
Emotional Awareness Essential
Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down
Self-Awareness Essential
Can demonstrate flexibility of approach Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with children and young people/vulnerable adults
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)
Address Chesterton Medical Centre
35 Union Lane
Cambridge
CB4 1PX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.eastofenglandcommunityhealthandcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)