# Community Therapy Team Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-therapy-team-lead/f982d7a4-d790-4487-a446-aefd164b4ee8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-therapy-team-lead/f982d7a4-d790-4487-a446-aefd164b4ee8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Mayo Building, Salford Royal - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Team leader - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (flexible working requests considered) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-15T11:00:38.863Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Rochdale/Northern_Care_Alliance_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Team_Lead/Team_Lead-v8296481 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8296481?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The HMR Community Therapy Service is constantly evolving to meet the needs of the population of Heywood Middleton and Rochdale. As team Lead, the post holder will have clinical, professional and managerial responsibility for the community therapy service including clinical and staff governance issues. The post holder is responsible for maximising service provision, including the delivery of safe and effective clinical practice, ensuring that all local and national guidelines and targets are adhered to and met. Working as Team leader, the band 7 will be part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team. The post holder will use advanced therapeutic skills in a variety of areas to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients and provide day to day operational management and leadership to the team. ### Main duties of the job Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently plan, complete advanced assessment and deliver interventions. They will be responsible for independently managing their own patient caseload, demonstrating clinical autonomy, advanced clinical reasoning, prioritisation and manage competing demands. The post holder will initiate and drive service development, demonstrate self-development and will be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to registered and non-registered staff. They will be responsible for providing specialist therapy advice within the trust and to other health care professionals. Main line management duties overseeing daily service operations, managing staff, and ensuring quality care delivery. These responsibilities include setting objectives, monitoring performance, providing feedback, and supporting staff development. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - IT skills - Promotes and supports own professional development - ability to motivate and contribute to develop MDT ### Experience **Essential** - Substantive post registration experience - Extensive knowledge/clinical experience in Urgent and or Community setting - Knowledge and understanding of local health and social care pathways - Experience in the management of long term conditions e.g. dementia, COPD, CHD etc - Able to demonstrate previous leadership experience **Desirable** - Previous experience or involvement with the writing of policies and protocols - Experience of leading, planning and completing audit /research ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registration with HCPC - Relevant Professional Health related degree - Possess a recognised Clinical skills Module at Masters level or equivalent knowledge **Desirable** - advanced level clinical qualification - leadership qualification ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 352.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10615252) - [secondment application (pdf, 112.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2908) - [functional requirements (pdf, 120.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10615254) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.