Clinical Lead Physiotherapist HomeFirst Chichester

The Home First service brings together nurses, paramedics, therapists, health and therapy assistants, to work with the acute Multi-Disciplinary Team & Transfer of Care Hubs to promote an efficient, effective discharge from hospital to the patient’s own home.

Our multidisciplinary 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, where required, provide acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.

You could become part of our exciting service, bringing the unique benefits of a wraparound recovery service from hospital discharge. The principle of the service ensuring that recovery involves working towards the person being as independent as possible through enablement.

We are looking for a Clinical Lead (Therapist) to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced therapist looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting‑edge, excellent community care, we’d love to hear from you!

The post holder will be required to provide Clinical and Professional Leadership, ensuring effective governance for staff working in Home 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 provide specialist clinical advice regarding complex patients as well as providing specialist clinical assessment and intervention for highly complex patients as required. They will work with the AHP Head of Service and Professional Leads in supporting an audit plan in the appropriate clinical area and participate in research as appropriate, 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 system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.

In this role you will be responsible for staff management, supervision, and development, including shift coordination, allocation of visits, and the performance development reviews of members of the team.

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.

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• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
  
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
  
• 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
  

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rosie Eldridge Job title: Operational Team Lead Email address:  Telephone number: