Job summary
We have an amazing opportunity to work differently to support our Craven Residents. The Team Leader for Enablement and IMC will work across community settings, predominantly within the Craven Area, but also supporting the wider Community Rehab Team as required. Providing support and leadership, along with existing team leaders, to lead and manage an integrated team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and support staff. To enable Home First discharges from hospital settings and provide rehab services in our Craven Intermediate Care beds. The community rehab team provides specialist assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation in intermediate care beds and in patients own homes. Blending boundaries and developing intermediate care roles with the Local authority.
This role is key in facilitating safe and timely hospital discharges in local hospitals. In conjunction with Craven Enablement services as well as ensuring IMC beds are used to best effect and are supported to ensure best use of resource.
Applicants will need excellent communication skills, a good understanding of the health care agenda and a vision for service development and growth.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Main duties of the job
* To undertake the role of the Team Leader; managing, planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating therapy plans as part of this broad MDT. Deputising for the Service manager as required.
* Provide support and leadership, along with existing team leaders, to lead and manage an integrated team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and support staff.
* To ensure the team provides high quality assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to people in their own homes and IMC beds.
* To act as a source of expertise and provide an advisory service to other ANHSFT therapists and members of the MDT in the management of Home First and IMC patients.
* To lead in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex and chronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnosis and any therapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
* To provide expert training and education for all grades of staff and other health professionals in the therapeutic management of community rehab patients.
* Provide effective student training and development.
* Provide a key role in partnership working with patients, carers, the MDT, bed managers and wider statutory, private and voluntary sector services.
About us
Opportunities to teach
Further education opportunities
Collaborative working across WYATT
Flexible working opportunities
Financial benefits / packages including Vivup and Wagestream
Nursery on the Acute Site
Buying and Selling Annual Leave
Car Leasing
Employee Assistance Programme
Employee Health and Wellbeing Benefits
Extensive Reward Scheme
Counselling Service
Staff network groups: Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race
Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network
Details
Date posted: 11 September 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 423-7432895
Job locations: Skipton General Hospital, Keighley Road, Skipton, BD23 2RJ
Job description: Job responsibilities
Please see the job advertisement, Job description and Person specification for more details of the role and information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy
* Essential: State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
* Essential: Recent post graduate courses relevant to the management of Stroke patients / Vocational rehabilitation
* Essential: Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/management
* Essential: Completion of course in Professional Practice education
* Desirable: MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
* Desirable: Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
* Desirable: Recent post graduate courses or experience relevant to rehab/ reablement / IMC
Experience
* Essential: Comprehensive, relevant and recent experience working in a wide variety of clinical areas
* Essential: Experience in assessment, treatment and management of people in rehab/ reablement/ IMC settings
* Essential: Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency team working
* Essential: Experience of multidisciplinary / interagency guideline development, implementation and audit
* Essential: Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
* Essential: Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews
* Essential: Recent experience of student training
* Essential: Recent experience of leadership /management role
* Essential: Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements
* Desirable: Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
* Desirable: Experience in dealing with Human Resource issues such as recruitment and retention, performance management, sickness and annual leave
* Desirable: Experience of working in partnership approach across system barriers
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Skipton General Hospital, Keighley Road, Skipton, BD23 2RJ
Employer's website: https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk
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