Job summary
Closing Date: 09/05/25 (this may change dependent on response)
Shortlisting to take place in the week following closing date: commencing 12/05/2025
After securing significantadditional funding, we are excited to have the opportunity to recruit a Team leader to support existing leadership within the service. We are seeking a leader who is experienced in staff management for our busy and supportive team of 21 staff in the Integrated Rehabilitation Team (previously Long Covid Team). This role would be 18.75 hours a perfect opportunity for someone looking for part time hours (0.5 WTE). Our current Team Lead has been in post for over 3 years and has a wealth of experience to support the right person in this role.
We are a forward thinking and innovative service which is reflected in the ethos of the team. With 5 years supporting Long Covid patients in a primarily group based, virtual format, we have built an experienced, supportive team leading the way in complex rehabilitation delivery. Including but not limited to Fatigue, Breathing Pattern Disorders, Stress, Pain, Symptoms of Dysautonomia and a very successful Vocational Rehabilitation offering. We are now expanding this offering of Vocational Rehabilitation to other long-term conditions to support people to remain in and return to work. We are seeking additional Team Leadership to support this growing service and team. The role will primarily be home based with regular clinic visits accross the patch.
Main duties of the job
This unique role will be a shared team lead position with responsibilities split between the successful candidate and the current team leader.
You will be responsible for the daily management of the team alongside the respective clinical leads, to ensure the effective functioning of a large team as well as optimising service delivery for effective and efficient patient care.
As a clinical team we currently provide a range of group-based interventions using a CBT style approach in the following areas: sleep, stress management, brain fog / cognition, fatigue management, remaining in work, returning to work, breathing pattern disorder, mindfulness for health, gentle movement, as well as weekly drop-in sessions for mindfulness and mindful movement. The team lead role involves attending service steering groups and chairing whole team meetings, managing staff absence and sickness, leading service change, supervision and managing waiting lists/times effectively considering staffing and the flow of patients through the service.
We believe this is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced team leader/clinical specialist who is seeking a unique opportunity to be involved in the leadership of an ever-evolving service. The team are one of few in the country selected to support this work and you could be at the forefront of this symptom based, patient led service expansion.
About us
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We're keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Person Spec and Job description
The recent Darzi report and subsequent 10-year health plan highlights the NHS need to shift care closer to home, tilt towards technologically driven services and support the public back to work. As a team we are consistently striving to push forward our care delivery, and the use of technology to provide and evaluate patient care is heavily utilised. We welcome change and encourage a culture that allows staff members to contribute to this.
The successful candidate would support our existing team leader working as part of a large MDT including clinical specialists in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, Speech and Language therapy and Long Covid Assessors. This enables us to think innovatively about how we meet the complex needs of our clients. We also have access to respiratory, cardiology and rehabilitation specialist consultants at regular MDT meetings.
We are looking to recruit a total of 0.5 WTE band 7 AHP Team Leader.
We would be keen to support secondments from other NHS organisations to provide opportunities for development across the local area and beyond. This role is currently until End of March 2026. There may be potential for this to be extended depending on future announcements. If you would like any further clarity, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Flexible working patterns and contracted hours will be considered for the role advertised and we would encourage you to discuss this on an individual basis.
With close links to Bradford University and system wide support across Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Bradford District Care Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation trust we can offer training opportunities that may be required to help meet the needs of this patient group.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Person Spec and Job description
The recent Darzi report and subsequent 10-year health plan highlights the NHS need to shift care closer to home, tilt towards technologically driven services and support the public back to work. As a team we are consistently striving to push forward our care delivery, and the use of technology to provide and evaluate patient care is heavily utilised. We welcome change and encourage a culture that allows staff members to contribute to this.
The successful candidate would support our existing team leader working as part of a large MDT including clinical specialists in Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Mental Health Nursing, Speech and Language therapy and Long Covid Assessors. This enables us to think innovatively about how we meet the complex needs of our clients. We also have access to respiratory, cardiology and rehabilitation specialist consultants at regular MDT meetings.
We are looking to recruit a total of 0.5 WTE band 7 AHP Team Leader.
We would be keen to support secondments from other NHS organisations to provide opportunities for development across the local area and beyond. This role is currently until End of March 2026. There may be potential for this to be extended depending on future announcements. If you would like any further clarity, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Flexible working patterns and contracted hours will be considered for the role advertised and we would encourage you to discuss this on an individual basis.
With close links to Bradford University and system wide support across Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Bradford District Care Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation trust we can offer training opportunities that may be required to help meet the needs of this patient group.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in related clinical area (e.g. Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, RN).
- State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
- Recent post graduate courses relevant to the post
- Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/management
- Completion of course in Professional Practice education
Desirable
- MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
- Post-graduate Diploma in Advanced Practice
- Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
- Successful completion of a Professionally validated specialist course
- Member of relevant Professional special interest groups/organisations
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to travel between clinics and sites in a timely manner.
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive, relevant and recent experience working in a wide variety of clinical areas
- Experience of assessing treating people recovering from deficits associated with Post covid and other Long Term conditions
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of multidisciplinary guideline development, implementation and audit
- Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
- Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews across discipline
- Recent experience of student training
Desirable
- Recent experience of leadership /management role
- Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements
- 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 shifts/ weekends
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues
Skills
Essential
- Able to engage service users in developing and improving services.
- Evidence of contributions to service improvements Able to maintain quality of own work and contribute to that of the service
- Promote and support equality and value diversity
- Experience of involvement in clinical effectiveness, audit and/or benchmarking
- Able to empower people to realise and maintain their potential.
- Able to empower people to realise and maintain their potential.
- Skills to work as of a part team
- Skills in the use digital technology
- Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing and empathy
- Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
- Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others
Desirable
- Ability to inspire staff to deliver high quality services
- Ability to chair meetings and facilitate workshops effectively
- Ability to adjust management style to suit the situation
- Ability to use all applications of Microsoft Office
- Audit and critical appraisal skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent pre-registration award in related clinical area (e.g. Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, RN).
- State registrations with the Health Care Professions Council
- Recent post graduate courses relevant to the post
- Recent post graduate courses in Leadership/management
- Completion of course in Professional Practice education
Desirable
- MSc or PhD in a relevant subject
- Post-graduate Diploma in Advanced Practice
- Certificate in Managing Health Services or equivalent
- Successful completion of a Professionally validated specialist course
- Member of relevant Professional special interest groups/organisations
OTHER
Essential
- Ability to travel between clinics and sites in a timely manner.
- Willingness to uphold the Trust's values
- Eligible to live and work in the UK
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive, relevant and recent experience working in a wide variety of clinical areas
- Experience of assessing treating people recovering from deficits associated with Post covid and other Long Term conditions
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of multidisciplinary guideline development, implementation and audit
- Experience of clinical supervision both as supervisee and supervisor
- Experience of supervising other staff members and conducting annual reviews across discipline
- Recent experience of student training
Desirable
- Recent experience of leadership /management role
- Experience of taking part in or leading on Projects/ service improvements
- 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 shifts/ weekends
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues
Skills
Essential
- Able to engage service users in developing and improving services.
- Evidence of contributions to service improvements Able to maintain quality of own work and contribute to that of the service
- Promote and support equality and value diversity
- Experience of involvement in clinical effectiveness, audit and/or benchmarking
- Able to empower people to realise and maintain their potential.
- Able to empower people to realise and maintain their potential.
- Skills to work as of a part team
- Skills in the use digital technology
- Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing and empathy
- Excellent interpersonal skills for developing complex working relationships, expressing opinions constructively, seeking consensus and maintaining networks
- Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills in complex situations and ability to facilitate these skills in others
Desirable
- Ability to inspire staff to deliver high quality services
- Ability to chair meetings and facilitate workshops effectively
- Ability to adjust management style to suit the situation
- Ability to use all applications of Microsoft Office
- Audit and critical appraisal skills
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
