Job summary
- Main area
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term contract from 1 June 2025 until 30 June 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Working pattern to be agreed at interview)
- Job ref
- 150-MM1749-PC
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Southfield House
- Town
- Worthing
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Speech & Language Therapist
Band 7
Job overview
Main duties of the job
- Leading clinical and non-clinical teams
- Service and pathway development
- Implementing new virtual models of service delivery
- Autonomously managing high-levels of demand and clinical risk in a community-setting
- Reporting, investigating and managing adverse incidents.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
a) To independently prioritise, organise and manage a caseload, including complex cases
b) To provide highly specialist evidence based intervention and evaluate clinical outcomes to ensure clinical effectiveness
c) To use highly specialist knowledge and be an expert resource for the team and wider SLT service
d) To manage service delivery for daily operations, seeking support and guidance from the Deputy Operational Head of Service as required.
e) To monitor demand and capacity within designated area, to ensure sufficient resources are available to maintain service delivery.
f) To have direct contact with patients through assessment or treatment as required to support the service.
g) To work with clinical leads to monitor performance, collect and analyse data, develop practice and standards of care.
h) To manage personal and budgetary processes (including; recruitment, EPRF, expenses approval, absence management, process orders).
i) To be responsible for ensuring effective induction for all staff within the area of responsibility and relevant students.
j) To maintain own professional competence to practice.
k) To ensure that all activity is person centred and MDT focussed.
l) To use advanced skills and expert knowledge to ensure that care is based on best available evidence to improve health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing of patients.
m) To act as professional role model for designated service area and uphold the Trust Values at all times.
n) To ensure all staff work to appropriate competency frameworks and manage performance of individuals through the appraisal and supervision process.
See job description for further details on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Degree (or recognised equivalent) in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
- Postgraduate and experiential training in relevant areas
- Evidence of a range of clinical competencies appropriate for the role
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification or willingness to undertake
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of supervision provision
- Significant experience of working in the clinical setting
- Experience of managing a multi-professional team / collaborative working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing a team or other relevant management experience.
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable expertise within clinical area underpinned by theory and significant experience
- Demonstrates excellence in communication skills with an ability to negotiate and manage conflict
- Current knowledge of local and national policies informing health and social care
- Demonstrate an ability to apply research to practice
- Knowledge of clinical governance, risk management and clinical audit
- Demonstrates ability to reflect and learn from situations
- Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development, skill sharing and developing staff competencies
Other
Essential criteria
- Car driver with own transport
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah MacFarlane
- Job title
- Advanced Speech & Lang Therapist Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 242 298
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