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The closing date is 06 October 2025

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your career in Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy?

We have a vacancy for a Band 7 talented Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly, dedicated community teams; helping to ensure that our children and young people in East Sussex get the start in life that they deserve. We have three clinical bases, but you will be expected to travel within East Sussex to meet the needs of the caseload.

You'll be joining a service which is directly integrated with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, working in clinics, schools, nurseries and family homes. We are devoted to supporting children through holistic care. The work is varied, interesting, and very fulfilling.

The induction we offer to all new colleagues includes regular meetings with your line manager, clinical supervision and appraisals, as well as internal and external training opportunities. We will encourage you to participate in service improvement groups and evidence-based practice, and we'll support you to develop your clinical skills to work with a varied paediatric caseload.

We welcome flexible working arrangements and do our best to offer a range of hours to ensure your work-life balance is supported, whilst delivering the best care to our patients.

Car owner essential, subject to the provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act (1995).

This job will be based in our Integrated Care Team which supports children and young people with complex needs both preschool and in the local special schools across East Sussex.

You will offer support through direct work with children and young people as well as supporting schools through our targeted and universal offer. We have established relationships with the local special schools and work with them to identify training gaps and new ways of working within the schools.

You will have knowledge of AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) and be willing to develop this further. There is also the opportunity to undertake dysphagia training.

As the band 7 you will lead the team and support the other team members to understand and plan their workload, whilst holding a clinical caseload yourself.

Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we've got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn't visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won't involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We'll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team viakentchft.recruitment@nhs.netquoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community differencehere.

• Consistently puts children and their families at the heart of clinical decision making.
• Values diversity and difference and operates with integrity and openness.
• Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation.
• Demonstrates commitment to partnership working with a range of external organisations.

• Recognised appropriate therapy degree or equivalent. Health and care professions council licence to practice.
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses. Dysphagia qualification.

• Experience of providing line and/ or clinical supervision.
• Evidence of innovative working and supporting change.
• Experience of partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of implementing service re-design within clinical area.
• Experience of giving presentations and promoting the work of the service/ organisation to relevant stakeholders.

• Knowledge of evidence based practice and ability to implement in clinical practice.
• Knowledge of child and adult safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Knowledge and understanding of organisational governance issues and policy.
• Knowledge of current local and national policies relevant to health, social care and education.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to motivate and lead staff.
• Ability to negotiate and influence.
• Ability to make decisions and deal with conflict.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback to other professionals

• Innovative and willing to meet new challenges and pioneer new ways of working.
• Ability to travel across a variety of sites in East Sussex within a timely manner, full UK driver's license is required

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust