Bank Speech and Language Therapist B7 | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a highly experienced bank speech and language therapist to provide support to our dysphagia team across Sussex community NHS Foundation trust as required.

This bank role will support services across West Sussex, including the Chichester, Worthing, and Central localities.

This is a bank position, offering flexible working opportunities on an as-needed basis. Hours are not guaranteed and will vary depending on service requirements.

This is an interesting and exciting opportunity to work with children and young people (0-19) with dysphagia.

You will have extensive knowledge of assessment, diagnosis and management of children and young people with eating and drinking difficulties. Accredited Intermediate Dysphagia training and neonatal training (or equivalent) are essential for this role. The role would be across West Sussex as required to meet demands of service. You would be required to provide specialist assessment and support to children and young people with eating and drinking difficulties, working in partnership with parents, speech and language therapy, health and education colleagues.

a) To provide and develop information for others about speech and language therapy, particularly in own specialist area.

b) To take a lead on planning and delivering training on own specialist area, within the Department and to other relevant professionals, parents and voluntary groups, as required, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the training provided.

c) To identify individual training and development needs through supervision, maintaining clinical expertise and developing special interest and expertise in the chosen specialist clinical area through attendance at appropriate courses, reading relevant literature etc. as identified in the Development Plan.

d) To enable others to reflect on clinical practice, and individual training and development needs through supervision

e) To provide clinical advice and support, including second opinions, to less experienced speech and language therapists

f) To contribute to research design and implementation within the Team(s) and the Department.

g) To be aware of, and adhere to, requirements of risk management policies, quality standards, clinical audit and involvement in provision of outcome measures in line with Clinical Governance requirements.

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
• 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.

a) To provide assessment, diagnosis and management to children within the designated caseloads, providing highly specialist programmes of care.

b) To provide advice to other professionals and parents in order to support the needs of children with speech, language and communication delay and disorder in specialist area.

c) To organise caseloads within the scope of the highly specialist post advising the SLT Service Manager of shortfalls and difficulties as they arise.

d) To negotiate with parents, carers and others around individual case management, demonstrating well developed negotiation skills and management of conflict.

e) To be responsible for administration and record keeping conforming to Departmental and Trust regulations concerning the format and security of patient records and the Data Protection Act.

f) To be aware of, and adhere to, legal requirements relating to the provision of a Speech and Language Therapy Service and of procedures relating to Child Protection.

g) To recognise own professional boundaries and seek advice and support as appropriate.

h) To lead in the development of innovative practices, projects and therapy packages in specialist area in collaboration with SLT Service Manager.

i) To participate in the development of Team and Service clinical policies and plans as directed by SLT Service Manager.

j) To provide timely and accurate statistics as required by the Department.

k) To provide appropriate and timely reports and other client related correspondence, according to service standards and requirements of other agencies.

l) To inform SLT Service Manager of any complaints by clients, parents/carers or others according to the Trust’s complaint procedure.

m) To inform the SLT Service Manager of any accidents and incidents at work in line with Health and Safety Regulations or particular problems associated with service provision.

n) To attend compulsory training on an annual basis or as required.

o) To comply with the standards and priorities laid down by the SLT Service Manager

This advert closes on Sunday 31 May 2026