Job summary

• 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.

Main duties of the job
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.

This job description is an outline only and is not definitive or restrictive in any way. It will be regularly reviewed and may be amended in the light of changing circumstances following consultation with the post holder

About us
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 3
Salary: £25,760 to £27,476 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 372-COM2798-A

Person Specification
Qualifications / Training

• Essential: English and Math GCSE grade 9-2 (A*-E) or equivalent or high level of literacy and numeracy skills demonstrated within application
• Essential: Competence based level 3 Qualification e.g. NVQ or Diploma in Care or The Care Certificate issued by an employer
• Essential: Willing and able to Participate in Competency Work Base Training Programme
• Desirable: Evidence of competency-based training in relevant field

Knowledge, Experience and Expertise

• Essential: Recent experience of working in a rehabilitation or reablement environment
• Essential: Recent relevant experience working in a multidisciplinary team in health/social care setting
• Essential: Recent relevant experience of dealing with adult clients with complex needs and their carers
• Essential: Understanding of rehabilitation and re-ablement principles
• Essential: An understanding of the needs and issues concerning illness and disability
• Essential: An understanding of the issues when working in the user's own home
• Essential: Recent relevant experience of instructing adults to perform practical tasks
• Essential: IT literate (email/internet/electronic patient records)
• Essential: Good time management skills and able to work to deadlines
• Desirable: Recent relevant experience of working in a community setting

Communication and Relationships (including management responsibilities)

• Essential: Able to work on own following agreed protocols, seeking help appropriately, particularly around unforeseen circumstances
• Essential: Able to use initiative but be aware of limitations of role
• Essential: Problem solving/decision making skills based on patient/client needs
• Essential: Good communication skills
• Essential: Ability to work well in a team
• Essential: Ability to work in various locations throughout the network of services provided by Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

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.

Employer details
Employer name: Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Bowling Mill - Community, Dean Clough, Halifax, HX3 5AX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.cht.nhs.uk

For questions about the job, contact: Susan Johnson, Manager, susan.johnson@cht.nhs.uk, 07385225021

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