Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7432895
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Skipton General Hospital
- Town
- Skipton
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Occupational Therapist: Community / NY Enablement / IMC Team lead
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
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 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
Working for our organisation
✓ 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see job advertisement, Job description and Person specification for more details of the role and information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Annette Ferrier
- Job title
- Professional Lead for Occupational Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 293654
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