Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum/Pro-rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 19 September 2025 |
| Location: | Chichester, PO201EZ |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7399832/150-GM2033-UPC |
Summary
Are you looking for a role where every day brings new challenges and the opportunity to change the lives of people in Sussex? Now is the perfect time to be part of our evolving Home First Service.
We’rebringing together nurses, therapists,healthand therapy assistants to work alongside acute multi-disciplinary teams and transfer of care hubs to promote an efficient, effective hospital-to-home transition for our patients.
Our multi-disciplinary Home First teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm.
Patients who are discharged from hospital into Home First will be receiving step-down intermediate care, involving community-based assessments and interventions provided in their own home to support recovery and monitoring of their health in the early days post discharge to prevent re-admission.
Home First will, whererequired, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
This is morethatjust a job-it’sa chance to be part of an innovative wrap around recovery service that helps people recover at home and regain their independence, giving them the confidence to get back to daily life.
The post holder willbe requiredto provide Clinical and Professional Leadership, ensuring effective governance for staff working inHome First.
They will work with the AHP Head of Service and Professional Leads to ensure staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
There will be an expectation to embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, including implementing the competency frameworks.
The post holder will be expected to providespecialist clinical adviceregardingcomplex patients as well as providing specialist clinical assessment and intervention forhighly complexpatients asrequired.
They will work with the AHP Head of Service and Professional Leads in supporting an audit plan in theappropriate clinicalarea andparticipatein research asappropriate, to inform future service development.
As an active part of the team, the post holder is expected to develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole systemworking, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
In this role you willbe responsible forstaff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews .
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 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.
Why work for us?
• 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
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• 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)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for more details regarding this job role.
This advert closes on Sunday 31 Aug 2025