Job summary
- Main area
- Intermediate Care
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 2 x 20 hr posts
- Hours
- Part time - 20 hours per week (day time shifts, including weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 236-RCO-CS258-25-PS
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tudor Court Intermediate Care Unit
- Town
- Heywood
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata, per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Team Leader
Band 5
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join Tudor Court team as a part time Band 5 Team Leader (2 posts available).
Tudor court is a 24 bed Unit within the heart of Heywood. It provides short term non-enhanced residential intermediate care and rehabilitation. The overarching aim of the Unit is to regain and improve the independence of people who might otherwise face unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays or inappropriate admission to Hospital or residential care.
The Unit has both step down and step up function with patients being admitted from their own home. The Care is person centred, focused on rehabilitation and care is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
As the Team Leader you will be responsible for the day to day management of the Unit and the provision of high quality harm free care to the patient group.
You will manage admissions and discharges to the unit working alongside the Multi Disciplinary Team.
You will be responsible for administering patients medication and monitoring their well-being.
Liaise with other agencies and work collaboratively with partners.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Direct Care/Health and Social Care
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- Current experience of working in a health/social care setting
- Experience of working collaboratively within an MDT
- Evidence of continuing development including relevant attendance at courses/conferences
- Experience in assessing patients
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills
- Demonstrate excellent IT skills and experience with health/social care IT systems
- Ability to prioritise and organise own workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Be an effective team member who is able to relate to colleagues at all levels of the Trust with tact and diplomacy
- Ability to coordinate your workload and supervise members of the team, ensuring high quality, safe and effective patient care
- Demonstrate initiative to proactively problem solve with a solution focus
- Ability to use reflective practice, to continuously improve the standard of patient care
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heidi Tombling
- Job title
- Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01706517630
- Additional information
Please contact Heidi Tombling, Unit Manager, for further details.
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