We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced occupational therapist to join our children’s therapy service in the Pennine Locality at LSCFT.
We are specifically looking for individuals with passion and drive to deliver an effective service for children and young people who have challenges with their motor coordination skills impacting on occupational performance in their everyday environments. The clinical pathway currently supports children and young people who may have diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disability (e.g. developmental coordination disorder, attention deficit disorder, autistic spectrum disorder) and
children and young people with a range of developmental and biomechanical difficulties who may also have motor skills difficulties that are impacting on their occupational performance.
We are investing in developing the clinical care pathway for this client group using a tiered approach to ensure it achieves the best clinical outcomes for the population of children and young people in need of guidance, support, assessment and therapeutic intervention.
We are looking for suitably trained and motivated therapist who can effectively deliver and contribute to the ongoing development of the pathway. With a positive focus on tiered service provision, we are developing self-management/universal support; targeted advice and strategies; specialist assessment, advice and therapeutic intervention; and highly specialist assessment and support.
You will be based in one of our three teams across the Pennine footprint, but you will contribute to clinical care for children and young people residing across the locality.
For further information about the post please contact us on the details provided.
You will be a clinical specialist in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and motor coordination difficulties. You will have a high level of experience in a range of assessment tools (both standardised and non-standardised) and treatment approaches in order to deliver specialist/highly specialist fine and gross motor interventions.
You will have a high understanding of child development and the challenges faced by this client group. You will work with the OT Principal Practitioner for this pathway and lead on pathway implementation, and competency development for occupational therapist, support staff and students in Pennine. You will have a particular focus on protecting the specialist nature of our offer and by supporting links with universal
services, effectively supporting children and young people to access services at the appropriate tier level for their current needs. This will require networking and the use of web-based resources and wide-reaching education/ targeted support.
You will work with your peer clinical lead with a clinical focus on specialist/highly specialist assessment and therapy provision, particularly for children and young people with co-occurring and complex NDD profiles.
As a Clinical Lead for this pathway, you will need to be confident to work
independently as lead specialist, demonstrating excellent leadership and
communication skills.
We are looking for individuals who are keen to invest in their own development and in return we will support you through professional and clinical supervision, shadowing and co-working opportunities, in-service training, professional forums, trust wide AHP research group, and funding opportunities for relevant external training courses.
You will have access to a vehicle for work purposes or be able to travel between community settings in a timely manner, including visits to regional specialist centres.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 12 Mar 2025