• Job Description

  Req#: C9150-25-0481?language=en&page=103&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The Home First service brings together therapists, nurses, and health and therapy assistants to work in close partnership with acute hospital teams and Transfer of Care Hubs, supporting safe and timely discharges back home.

  Our multidisciplinary team provides a 7-day service, 365 days a year from 8am to 8pm, delivering step-down intermediate care to patients in their own homes. As a therapist, you will carry out community-based assessments and rehabilitation interventions that promote recovery, monitor health, and reduce the risk of re-admission in the crucial early days post-discharge. Where required, Home First offers up to 10 days of acute reablement, helping patients regain function and independence in daily living.

  This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a wraparound recovery-focused service, where therapists play a central role in enabling individuals to achieve their goals and maximise independence. If you're passionate about delivering high-quality, person-centred care in the community and want to work as part of a supportive and innovative team, we'd love to hear from you!

  Main duties of the job

  Band 6 Therapist:

  As a Band 6 Therapist, you will manage a complex caseload, delivering high-quality, evidence-based therapy interventions to patients in their own homes. You'll use your advanced clinical reasoning to complete holistic assessments, develop tailored treatment plans, and monitor progress, adapting interventions as needed.

  This is a leadership role where you'll supervise and support colleagues from Bands 2 to 5, contribute to student education, and support appraisals and team development. You'll be actively involved in service evaluation, audits, and improvement initiatives, ensuring best practice is embedded across the team.

  Working as part of a responsive multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in planning patient pathways, managing clinical risk, and promoting patient independence. You'll also maintain accurate documentation, support equipment management, and engage in continuous professional development through training, reflection, and supervision.

  About us

  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?o Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto 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.

  Details

  Date posted

  11 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  150-OM1859-UPC-A

  Job locations

  Southfield House

  Worthing

  BN11 1RY

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For further information on the roles available please see attached Job Descriptions and Person Specification.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For further information on the roles available please see attached Job Descriptions and Person Specification.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
  • Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

  Desirable

  • Training in student education

  Experience

  Essential

  • Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
  • Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
  • Experience of interdisciplinary working
  • Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
  • Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
  • Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
  • Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
  • Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
  • Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
  • Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
  • Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
  • Able to delegate work to others
  • Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
  • Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
  • Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
  • Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
  • Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
  • Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
  • Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
  • Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
  • Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
  • Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
  • Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
  • Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD

  Other

  Essential

  • Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
  • Access to a vehicle for work purposes
  • Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role

  Desirable

  • Other requirements Flexible approach to working

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
  • Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality

  Desirable

  • Training in student education

  Experience

  Essential

  • Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
  • Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
  • Experience of interdisciplinary working
  • Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
  • Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
  • Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
  • Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
  • Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
  • Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
  • Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
  • Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
  • Able to delegate work to others
  • Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
  • Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
  • Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
  • Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
  • Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
  • Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
  • Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
  • Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
  • Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
  • Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
  • Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
  • Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
  • Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD

  Other

  Essential

  • Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
  • Access to a vehicle for work purposes
  • Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role

  Desirable

  • Other requirements Flexible approach to working

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  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.

  Certificate of Sponsorship

  Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

  From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Southfield House

  Worthing

  BN11 1RY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Southfield House

  Worthing

  BN11 1RY

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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