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Job summary

Main area
Rehabilitation
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (End date 31st Jan 2026)
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Flexible - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ideally)
Job ref
423-6907927
Employer
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (Working across the three NHS trusts in Bradford Districts and Craven - Act As One)
Town
Keighley
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/01/2025 23:59

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Airedale NHS Foundation Trust logo

Clinical Pathway Rehabilitation Coordinator

NHS AfC: Band 8a

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.

 

Job overview

2025 is a very exciting year for Rehabilitation locally and across West Yorkshire.

The Long Covid Pathway is an innovative integrated multi-disciplinary rehabilitation service that supports people across Bradford Districts and Craven with a symptom focused, virtual first approach. 

With clinics across place, including Skipton, Bingley and the University of Bradford we offer a combination of virtual and face to face assessment, rehabilitation and support.

The service has just successfully completed the first national pilot of self referrals, improving significantly the access for those in the most deprived areas and those with the most severe health inequalities.  We also lead nationally in our group based vocational rehabilitation offer whilst moving forwards into 2025 projects include shaping the future of rehabilitation, in house spirometry and co-production. 

The role is currently majority home based allowing for great flexibility within the work life balance. Supervision will be provided by the Service and West Yorkshire ICS Rehabilitation Lead. 

 

Main duties of the job

  • Lead clinically day to day the Long Covid Pathways whilst taking a lead in  Consultant and AHP led MDTs.
  • Maintain the quality and safety of patients whilst on the pathway alongside ensuring the appropriate escalation of patients when needed.
  • Lead on ongoing developments and innovations within the service whilst making use, 
    wherever possible, of technological options to maximise efficiency and safety
  • Work closely with system partners to ensure effective use of resources and patient flow along 
    the COVID-19 rehabilitation pathway.
  • Take a lead role in co-ordinating equity of access to the service with a focus on health inequalities.
  • Take a lead role in monitoring and co-ordinating patients throughout their COVID-19 
    rehabilitation journey, using data intelligence to evaluate patient outcomes and the service interventions.
  • Support the Service Lead, BDC Health & Care Partnership and the wider West Yorkshire ICS Rehabilitation Lead role in delivering high quality, cost effective, symptom focused patient care locally at place and wider across West Yorkshire.
  • Assist the Service Managers and System Partners to plan and implement improvement and 
    innovations within the service in line with local and/or national commissioning requirements 

Working for our organisation

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

  • Cycle to Work
  • Travel Scheme
  • Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
  • Onsite Nursery
  • Buying and Selling Annual Leave
  • Car Leasing
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Employee Health and Wellbeing
  • Extensive Reward Scheme
  • Counselling Service
  • Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
  • Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

 

Our values:

We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

  • Committed to Quality of Care
  • Compassion
  • Working together for patients
  • Improving Lives
  • Everyone Counts
  • Respect and Dignity

 

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities 
1. Clinical
1.1. Utilises advanced specialist knowledge covering a range of procedures and underpinned by 
relevant broad based knowledge, experience and competence
1.2. Develops and maintains new skills in extended scope practice in response to emerging 
knowledge and techniques 
1.3. Where appropriate to service delivery, demonstrates highly developed physical skills which 
require specific training or considerable experience to attain the level required e.g. 
advanced moving and handling techniques, advanced clinical assessment, clinical 
procedures, diagnostic tests
1.4. Demonstrates independent practice responding to social, scientific, clinical and ethical 
issues which are encountered
1.5. Makes complex judgements requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of options by 
integrating complex knowledge sources in new and/or unfamiliar contexts and determining 
the appropriate application of clinical guidelines relevant to patient needs 
1.6. Responsible for developing new and innovative clinical pathways across the broad health 
and social care context
1.7. Engages and actively involves the individual and, if appropriate, their family/carer
1.8. Works to standards of advanced proficiency identified by their professional and regulatory 
bodies performing clinical treatments/procedures to a highly specialist standard 
1.9. Prioritises their own workload within agreed objectives deciding when to refer to others as 
appropriate
1.10. Provides and receives highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information 
where motivational, persuasive, empathetic, negotiating and reassurance skills are required 
whilst demonstrating an understanding of barriers to communication
1.11. Approaches each individual with care, compassion and sensitivity ensuring that these 
values are reflected in all aspects of the role including the management of compliments and 
complaints
1.12. To comply with the organisations’ Infection Prevention and Control requirements. 
1.13. Acts as a highly specialist source of information and support for other professionals and 
agencies across the broad health and social care context.


2. Leadership and Management 
2.1. Ensures that a professional service and image is maintained at all time, thereby acting as a 
role model to all staff
2.2. Provides a leadership style which is underpinned by strongly held values around equality, 
diversity and openness; effectively builds and maintains relationships with key individuals.
2.3. Demonstrates leadership and innovation in contexts which are unfamiliar, complex, and 
unpredictable that require solving problems involving many complex interacting factors
2.4. Ability to delegate, organise and prioritise to ensure the safe delivery of the service 
including the management of referrals and discharges utilising locally agreed support 
mechanisms and making judgements in complex situations
2.5. By actively participating or leading multi-discipline or multi-agency work streams, the post 
holder will propose and develop clinical policies and/or service developments which have 
impact on other disciplines, services or agencies
2.6. Demonstrates resilience when responding to challenge, change and complex or difficult 
situations
2.7. Demonstrates clinical leadership, initiative and creativity in developing a broad range of 
projects or plans and inspiring others to be positive in their contribution to continuous 
improvement and innovation, including adjusting plans where necessary
2.8. Clearly articulates the expected clinical standards of the service, monitors and identifies 
where standards are not met and takes action to address these holding people to account 
where necessary
2.9. Ensures that all objectives, for self and those directly responsible for, are clearly defined 
within the wider Directorate framework and in line with Trust’s objectives, using the 
appraisal process as a vehicle for this
2.10. Be responsible for the clinical leadership of their specific service, taking into account issues 
which impact internally and externally, proactively seeking creative solutions and sharing 
learning openly. This includes supporting investigations and performance management 
processes, and ensuring complaints have clinical scrutiny 
2.11. Takes responsibility for their own and others’ health and safety in the working environment
2.12. Ability to represent the service at relevant local or regional clinical forums.


3. Personal and Professional Development
3.1 Adhere to the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Standards of Proficiency and Code 
of Ethics and Professional Conduct stipulated by the postholders professional body and 
maintain current professional registration.
3.2 Maintain own and support others with continuing professional development (CPD) by keeping 
abreast of new trends and developments, use of reflective practice and incorporating learning into 
working practice.
3.3 Attend and present in-service training sessions and at meetings and forums sharing existing 
knowledge and skills and feeding back from external courses.
3.4 Be a role model for professional behaviours in all aspect of practice.
3.5 Ensure own and team compliance with supervision and appraisals standards and maintain a 
personal professional portfolio.
3.6 Support participation in relevant internal and external research and quality improvement 
projects.
3.7 Establish links with other clinicians specialising in the care of long covid patients through 
regional and national groups to promote sharing of good practice and evidence-based research.
3.8 Facilitate and engage in practice placement education (PPE) and ensure that PPE standards 
are upheld by all staff.


4. Service Improvement and Governance
4.1 To manage a significant change/improvement agenda setting standards of responsiveness and 
innovation in patient led services
4.2 To take the lead on specific areas of service development and identified issues as agreed 
4.3 To be aware of the developments of best practice and research in the field of Covid 19 recovery 
to effectively influence developments at a strategic level and local level 
4.4 To contribute to the creation, development and implementation of guidelines and protocols of care 
relating to Covid 19 rehabilitation
4.5 To actively participate in the business development of the service area facilitating growth, contract 
compliance and a positive high profile for the service
4.6 To ensure that workforce development, planning and modernisation is integral to the service area 
and taking the lead in implementing service changes
Person Spec for Clinical Pathway rehabilitation coordinator v1 February 2021
4.7 To evaluate and monitor service delivery and in collaboration with others undertake service and 
role re-design where indicated to improve efficiency and effectiveness within services
4.8 To plan, coordinate and manage a variety of meetings involving a wide range of attendees
4.9 To work collaboratively with colleagues in other health, social care and national organisations 
and with patients to support effective service delivery and service developments
4.10 To critically examine new research findings and ensure they inform practice as appropriate
4.11 To actively disseminate and communicate with clinical teams about advancements and 
standards of care
4.12 To identify, facilitate participate and present audit and research supporting this both within 
the service and outside, evaluate results and implement relevant changes
4.13 Participate in risk assessment and reduction and enable staff to report any adverse events. 
4.14 Investigate incidents, informal comments and formal complaints
4.15 Ensure accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation is maintained in line with 
professional, legal and service requirements.
4.16 Communicate clinical and personal information confidentially and in an appropriate format and 
apply the same standards to the team.
4.17 Follow Trust and departmental policies and guidelines


5. Learning and Development
5.1 Undertakes any training required to develop and maintain their proficiency in response to 
changes in service delivery or new and emerging techniques within the clinical area and 
demonstrate competence within professional body requirements
5.2 Reflects on and evaluates own practice and identifies areas of development by setting 
appropriate objectives via appraisal and clinical supervision
5.3 Contributes to research and development programmes appropriate to professional practice
5.4 Shares good practice and promotes the organisation through presentation, publication and 
submission for relevant awards
5.5 Devises and delivers specialist clinical training and development programmes within team and 
to other disciplines, services, teams or agencies
5.6 Provides high quality, specialist advice related to clinical specialism to other practitioners, 
agencies and individuals


6. Partnership and Team Working
6.1 Working in partnership with other operational, clinical and professional leaders across the 
health and care system ,the post holder will lead discussions related to clinical standards of 
practice within their sphere of responsibility
6.2 Works in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to effectively manage complex cases 
whilst focusing on individual client need
6.3 Actively develops and maintains effective professional, clinical and corporate working 
relationships both within and outside the Trust including with other agencies.
6.4 Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain 
such relationships in order to enhance service delivery and make improvements to patient 
pathways
6.5 Actively contributes to the multi-disciplinary team acting as a credible source 
of information for other agencies/professionals involved in the care as required acting as a 
resource of highly specialist knowledge for others


Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or Equivalent pre-registration award in relevant AHP or Nursing
  • Recent post graduate courses relevant to rehabilitation to post graduate/MSc level
  • Recent post graduate course in leadership/ management
Desirable criteria
  • Post Graduate Diploma/ Qualification in Advanced Practice
  • Involvement in professional initiatives at a regional or national level

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Comprehensive, holistic, relevant and recent experience across rehabilitation in a rehabilitation role
  • Experience of multidisciplinary team working across agencies and health , social care and voluntary sectors
  • Significant experience of being autonomous in supporting patients with complex rehabilitation needs, such as long covid, ME/CFS
  • Experience of a service clinical leadership role
  • Experience and comfort in using virtual and group based settings for rehabilitation
  • Experience in leading and supervising senior AHP's
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of delivering successful innovation and change
  • System Leadership experience

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work autonomously within own scope of practice and competence, highlighting learning needs and meeting these needs
  • Excellent communication and counselling skills
  • Ability to establish positive relationships and mutual respect with people at all levels
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills
  • Ability to be a leader befitting of the requirements of todays NHS
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to chair high level meetings
  • Ability and experience in presenting to senior level meetings locally, across place or nationally

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardDisability Confident - two yearsNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible WorkingArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jeremy Gee
Job title
Service Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
Please email
Additional information

We respond to emails daily so please email and leave contact details and the best time to call back for any enquiries. We welcome any questions that you may have and would be more than happy to discuss this opportunity in more detail.  We look forwards to hearing from you.

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