Speech and Language Therapist

2 weeks ago

Chichester West Sussex, United Kingdom Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Children's Speech and Language Therapy service has vacancy at Band 5 for therapists seeking their first post, or an opportunity to extend their experience and skills further at this level. We can offer full or part time positions (a minimum of 0.6 WTE) based from our team hubs in Chichester and covering the areas to the south and west of West Sussex.


Early Years Community


These are ideal posts to help you transition from student to therapist and develop a wide range of therapeutic skills to carry forward into your career. If you would like an informal chat with one of our clinical leads or the clinical services managers, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our Speech and Language Therapy service is jointly funded by Health and Education and has a service specification that is broadly divided into Early Years and Schools. We use a universal, targeted and specialist approach focused on enabling the best possible communication between parents, carers and setting staff and the children and young people in their care.


Assess children's speech language and communication needs (SLCN) and the functional impact of these


Advise families and settings on how they can help reduce this impact and facilitate communication skills


Provide individual or group therapy, demonstrating to parents/carers and setting staff how they can use strategies and techniques


Train parents/carers and setting staff so that they are empowered to identify and manage their child's communication needs.


Maintain your clinical and professional development to be the best therapist you can be and progress in your career


Be part of clinical networks to ensure practice is evidence based and current.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. 3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.


Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.


We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.


Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
Excellent training and development opportunities
Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
To assess and provide therapeutic input to children and young people with communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties.


To assist in the organisation of caseloads within the scope of the post with support from other speech and language therapists and/or relevant Clinical Lead, advising SLT Clinical Service Manager of shortfalls and difficulties as they arise.


Manage clinical risk within own caseload, and generate strategies for caseload management.


Ensure that the child/young person and parent/ carers are involved in planning and decision making relevant to therapy intervention.


To provide accurate and timely statistics as required by Speech and Language Therapy and Sussex Community Foundation Trust


To provide all clinical practice in line with HCPC Standards of Proficiency and RCSLT clinical guidelines, ratified local policies and with due regard to evidence based practice.


Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree
Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level.
Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to children with speech/language and communication difficulties
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
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