Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced Speech & Language Therapist
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Advanced Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join our Adult SLT Service as Clinical Lead for the Coastal Team covering Worthing and surrounding towns and villages.
This is a dynamic leadership role where you will shape and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across both inpatient and community settings, supporting patients in Worthing and surrounding areas. You will play a key role in driving service development, strengthening multidisciplinary working, and ensuring excellent clinical outcomes.
As a senior clinician, you will also deputise for the Operational Team Lead when required, contributing to operational oversight, service performance, and workforce development. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to combine strong clinical expertise with leadership and service improvement.
This is a full-time position, however we would be happy to consider part-time hours.
This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a visible clinical leadership role within a supportive and forward-thinking service, where you can make a real difference to patient care and service development.
In This Role, You Will
- Act as the Clinical Lead for the Coastal Adult SLT Team, providing specialist clinical guidance and leadership
- Deliver a highly specialist SLT service to adults with communication and swallowing disorders across acute and community settings
- Hold clinical responsibility for complex caseloads, ensuring evidence-based assessment, treatment, and outcome measurement
- Lead and support a multidisciplinary team, promoting collaborative, integrated care
- Support service development and transformation, identifying opportunities to improve patient pathways and experience
- Deputise for the Operational Team Lead in their absence, contributing to service delivery, workforce planning, and operational decision-making
- Provide clinical supervision, teaching, and mentorship to therapists, support staff, students, and apprentices.
- Ensure effective governance, including audit, risk management, and quality improvement initiatives
- Monitor demand and capacity, ensuring safe, responsive, and sustainable service delivery
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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.
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Why work for us?
- Positive 2024 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
- Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
- 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
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.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sharon Gasson
- Job title: Operational Head of Service
- Email address: sharon.gasson3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07442 439 378
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