Senior Rehabilitation Assistant

Main area Rehabilitation Assistant Grade NHS AfC:
Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

35 hours per week (up to 37.5 hours per week) Job
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2701-G

Employer Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Bowling Mill, Community Town Halifax Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/10/2026

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us.

Our Future Plans

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit

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.

• Act within the limits of your competence and authority i.e. work to competencies & local protocols and understand local communication networks. This includes making judgements around what may or may not be…