Specialist Adult Speech and Language Therapist

You will work across adult acute inpatient wards, managing patients with complex dysphagia, communication, and cognitive-communication needs, including:

• General/acute medicine, Surgical wards, Neurosciences, Older adults and complex medical patients
• Patients with multi-morbidity, frailty, and fluctuating medical status

You will be expected to:

• Independently assess and manage complex acute caseload
• Make autonomous clinical decisions and provide risk-based recommendations
• Work closely with MDTs to support safe and timely discharge
• Support service flow and patient safety in a busy acute hospital
• Contribute to service development, audit, and governance activities

Ideally you will have some prior experience in treating benign Voice disorders and Head and Neck cancer patients, however support to develop competency in this area can be offered. You will have access to supervision with a Highly Specialist Voice & HN Therapist and we would be willing to support CPD in this area.

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.