Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapist: Community / NY Enablement / IMC Team lead

The closing date is 25 September 2025

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 teamleaders, 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 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 therapyplans as part of this broad MDT. Deputising for theService manager as required

Provide support and leadership, along with existing teamleaders, to lead and manage an integrated team ofoccupational therapists, physiotherapists, and support staff

To ensure the team provides high quality assessment,treatment and rehabilitation to people in their own homesand IMC beds

To act as a source of expertise and provide an advisoryservice to other ANHSFT therapists and members of theMDT in the management of Home First and IMC patients.

To lead in the advanced assessment and treatment ofpatients within the speciality who may have complex andchronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnosisand any therapy treatment indicated, and to maintainrecords as an autonomous practitioner.

To provide expert training and education for all grades ofstaff and other health professionals in the therapeuticmanagement 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 Per annum

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 job advertisement, Job description and Person specification for more details of the role and information

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see 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
  • State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
  • Recent post graduate courses relevant to the management of Stroke patients / Vocational rehabilitation.
  • Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/management
  • Completion of course in Professional Practice education

Desirable

  • MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
  • Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
  • 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
  • Experience in assessment, treatment and management of people in rehab/ reablemnet/ IMC settings
  • Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency team working
  • Experience of multidisciplinary / interagency guideline development, implementation and audit
  • Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
  • Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews
  • Recent experience of student training
  • Recent experience of leadership /management role
  • Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements

Desirable

  • Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
  • Experience in dealing with Human Resource issues such as recruitment and retention, performance management, sickness and annual leave
  • Experience of working in partnership approach working in collaboration across system barriers
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in Occupational Therapy
  • State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
  • Recent post graduate courses relevant to the management of Stroke patients / Vocational rehabilitation.
  • Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/management
  • Completion of course in Professional Practice education

Desirable

  • MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
  • Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
  • 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
  • Experience in assessment, treatment and management of people in rehab/ reablemnet/ IMC settings
  • Experience of multidisciplinary and interagency team working
  • Experience of multidisciplinary / interagency guideline development, implementation and audit
  • Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
  • Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews
  • Recent experience of student training
  • Recent experience of leadership /management role
  • Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements

Desirable

  • Experience of taking part in or leading an audit or research project
  • Experience in dealing with Human Resource issues such as recruitment and retention, performance management, sickness and annual leave
  • Experience of working in partnership approach working in collaboration 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 (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

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Skipton General Hospital

Keighley Road

Skipton

BD23 2RJ


Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Skipton General Hospital

Keighley Road

Skipton

BD23 2RJ


Employer's website

https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy

Annette Ferrier

annette.ferrier@nhs.net

01535293654

Details

Date posted

11 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

423-7432895

Job locations

Skipton General Hospital

Keighley Road

Skipton

BD23 2RJ


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