Community Rehabilitation Service Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Portsmouth City Council’s Community Rehabilitation Service as a Service Lead, working as part of a collaborative leadership team with two Therapy Leads to shape and deliver a high-quality, person-centred service across Portsmouth.

Your new role

As Service Lead, you will provide strong operational and professional leadership as part of a wider multidisciplinary leadership team, working closely alongside Therapy Leads to deliver a high-quality, person-centred reablement service across Portsmouth. The postholder will play a key role in ensuring the service operates as a cohesive, integrated offer, supporting residents to regain, maintain and maximise their independence at home through the effective coordination of short-term rehabilitation and reablement interventions.

Leading the day-to-day operation of the service, you will ensure support is responsive, efficient and focused on achieving positive outcomes. Working in partnership with Therapy Leads, you will oversee the delivery of home-based interventions that promote independence, support safe hospital discharge, reduce avoidable readmissions and help prevent or delay the need for long-term care. Through a strengths-based approach, you will ensure interventions are tailored to individual goals and support people to build confidence, mobility, daily living skills and community connections.

The role requires close collaboration with a wide range of partners, including community therapy teams, hospital discharge services, social care practitioners and voluntary sector organisations, to ensure joined-up working, effective care planning and seamless transitions between services. As a senior leader within Portsmouth City Council, you will also foster a positive learning culture, supporting staff development, driving continuous service improvement and using performance data to maintain high standards of service delivery.

As a member of the multidisciplinary management team, you will champion Portsmouth City Council’s values, ensuring these are embedded across the service. You will contribute to wider Local Authority priorities around independence, prevention and person-centred support, ensuring the service delivers strong outcomes for residents while maintaining a clear PCC identity within an integrated health and care system.

Who is the person summary:

With a relevant professional qualification in a health or social care field and registration with the appropriate professional body, you will bring strong operational leadership skills. You will be confident operating within a shared leadership model, working alongside Therapy Leads to oversee a fast-paced, home-based service where needs can change daily. You will have a clear understanding of reablement, rehabilitation, functional assessment and short-term intervention, ensuring that decisions are grounded in what people can safely and realistically achieve at home.

You will be confident managing unpredictable workloads, supporting staff to work autonomously, and ensuring consistent, high-quality practice across all interventions. You will demonstrate the ability to influence, problem solve, and use evidence, data and real-time learning to improve service outcomes.

Strong partnership working is essential, alongside excellent communication skills and the ability to coach, mentor and support staff. You will bring resilience, curiosity, and a commitment to strengths-based, person-centred practice that empowers people to regain independence, while promoting Portsmouth City Council’s values and approach to care.

For full details, please review 'who is the person' on the job profile below attached.

About Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.

We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.

Additional Information

If you would like to discuss this role in more detail with the hiring manager, please contact:

Kaylee Mowett, Clinical Lead - Kaylee.mowatt@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or

Charlotte Land, Integrated Care Lead - charlotte.land2@nhs.net

Please ensure that you read the job profile for full details on the post. Office attendance is required, Monday - Friday, this remains flexible, subject to business needs. Please ensure you can fulfil this prior to submitting your application

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this position.

Interview date: 21 July 2026.

Our recruitment process

Full information about our recruitment process can be found on our support for applicants' page:Support for applicants - Careers portal

You must demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.If you apply without a detailed personal statement, it is unlikely that you will be successful.

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You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.

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Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Please read the relevant DBSprivacy noticebefore submitting any information.

You will need to explain any gaps in your career history within the last 5 years - this is essential for all safeguarding roles.

Should you require any support in completing the application form please contactrecruit@portsmouthcc.gov.ukor call the recruitment team on 023 92 616 800.