Senior Rehabilitation Assistant | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

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Be a key member of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team providing support to adults of all ages who do not require specialist acute hospital admission but require support to maintain their independence within their home setting.

Placing emphasis on promoting and maintaining individuals' independence, dignity, and choice, undertaking medical, nursing or therapy related treatment programs or social care intervention to support and enable people.

Working across the whole of Calderdale, caring and supporting individuals within their own homes. Participate in new initiatives and future changes in care delivery including the Urgent Community Response Team and the Virtual Ward. Support hospital discharges and prevent unnecessary admissions to hospitals.

The UCR team delivers a seven-day service with staff working on a rota basis for different shift patterns covering the whole of Calderdale. The service focuses on the delivery of rapid assessment and intervention for adults of all ages who do not require specialist acute hospital admission but who require crisis intervention within a community setting. This may be due to an alteration in their physical or psychological well-being, or a temporary change in their social circumstances which makes it difficult for them to be maintained in their own home without a short period of rehabilitation or intervention from UCR.

Work will be carried out in patients own home and the activities will include:

• Implementing treatment to protocols, and based on competencies.

• Monitoring progress and feeding back to the registered practitioner or assistant practitioner

• Making minor adjustments to treatment programmes within pre determined limits

• Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatment.

• May involve assessing for, ordering and issuing predetermined basic equipment to protocols and established guidelines.

Urgent Community Response team is an integrated multi-disciplinary service comprising nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapist and pharmacist .You will provide planned time limited active therapy treatment regimes, medical and nursing interventions and social care support for adults of over the age of 18 who require crisis intervention within a community setting, thereby avoiding an unnecessary hospital admission.

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If you’re interested in applying or would like to learn more about working in our team, we’d be happy to hear from you.

Please contact the vacancy lead listed in the “Further details / informal visits” section.

This advert closes on Sunday 1 Nov 2026