Clinical AHP Specialist (Physiotherapist) in Palliative Care | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a for a compassionate and highly skilled Physiotherapist to join our Community Specialist Palliative Care Team. This is an exciting opportunity to use your advanced clinical expertise to make a real difference to people living with life limiting illness, supporting them and their families to live with dignity, comfort and choice.

You'll be an autonomous practitioner who thrives in complex situations, values collaborative working and demonstrates leadership rooted in evidence-based, person centred care. If you would like to join a service that is committed to delivering excellent care at the heart of the community, we'd love to hear from you.

Please know that this role is indictive.

Please note interviews will be held on 27th May.

In this role, you will

* Provide expert assessment, advice and intervention for patients with complex palliative and end‑of‑life care needs.

• Lead on caseload management for your locality and contributing to high‑quality multidisciplinary care.
• Use advanced clinical reasoning to support patients and families through complex emotional, physical, and psychosocial situations.
• Communicate sensitively, often delivering difficult information with professionalism, empathy, and reassurance.
• Develop productive working relationships with internal teams, primary care partners, hospices and community services.
• Contribute to service development, innovation, and clinical governance.
• Deliver and support palliative care education, supervision, research, and audit.
• Promote equitable, inclusive, dignified care for all patients and carers.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in autonomous, community‑based work, enjoys working across professions, and is passionate about improving palliative care provision.

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 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing

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Varied environments

community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex

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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.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Our Trust and leadership teams are committed to supporting your work/life balance via flexible working and tailored support to help you advance your clinical practice and leadership skills in style that suits you, your health and wellbeing and your future career aspirations. This is an ideal opportunity to bring your skills and develop them in a flexible, supportive, and positive community service.

You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.

Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Thursday 21 May 2026