Band 6

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest community healthcare provider in Sussex.

• 5,000 full and part time staff, with over 4,000 people registered on our bank
• 14 inpatient and outpatient locations, serving a total community of 1.3 million people
• Medical, nursing and therapeutic care provided to over 9,000 children and adults a day
• July 2018 Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features
• Stonewall Diversity Champions, and Disability Confident Employer - Level 2

We are looking for a Speech and Language Therapist who enjoys working with school-aged children and wishes to develop their specialist skills in supporting schools to meet the needs of children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs. Our busy and happy team covers Chichester, Bognor and Midhurst, and is just over an hour west of Brighton.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our clinically-led Schools team with sessions available in mainstream schools, a Specialist Support Centre (SSC) within a secondary school, and a special school for pupils aged 7-16 years who have social, emotional and mental health needs, and a range of additional needs including autism. You will be the link therapist for a group of schools, working closely with education staff and Speech and Language Therapy colleagues in both the Early Years and Schools teams.

The 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, with our Complex Needs team supporting children in Child Development Centres, special schools, and a range of other settings. We use a universal, targeted and specialist approach focused on enabling parents, carers and setting staff to communicate as well as they possibly can with the children and young people in their care.

We endeavour to work as a team across the wider workforce in Early Years and Schools settings, keeping the children and families as our central focus at all times.

The successful candidate will receive a comprehensive induction which will lead into excellent regular supervision from Specialist Speech and Language Therapists (Band 7) as well as peer supervision. We have clinically-focused locality meetings every eight weeks, an annual Professional Study Day, an annual Allied Health Professions Celebration Day, clinical forums, a journal club, and ad hoc in-house training. This year we have secured Attention Autism Training for 25 staff and last year did the same with Nuffield Training. We also have equipment budgets which enable the service to continually improve resources for assessment and therapy.

The service has an electronic patient record system and benefits from fantastic administrative support. Most importantly, we are a well established and friendly team.

This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.

Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. Please ensure that you check your emails on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically also; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• B6 SLT Job description
• B6 Person specification SLT
• Staff Benefits Brochure
• About Us

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