Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Fixed-term/Secondment until Jan 2027

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 enthusiastic, 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.

Main duties of the job

Based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge but 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 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 out-patient 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 17th May 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 2nd June 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.