Our LSCFT Children’s Learning Disability Team are looking for a new member to join our team! If you have experience at Band 5 or have been working at band 6 in a different clinical area and would like to progress your career working with children and young people with Learning Disabilities, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist who is adaptable, highly motivated, with excellent communication skills and who is as passionate about working with young people with complex needs. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing Occupational Therapy assessments, evidence based interventions and support to young people with learning disabilities and their families and carers.
The Occupational Therapy team works within locality teams across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area and team working with our MDTs is really important to us! The role includes agile and office based working and Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust offers flexible working opportunities to support staff well-being.
The Occupational Therapy provision will cover across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Assess the young person’s occupational performance in the environment, Support children, young people and their families to engage and participate everyday activities.
Activities of daily living, leisure activities and productivity.
Develop focused care plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt care plan as necessary.
To deliver evidenced based specialist Occupational therapy interventions.
To support delivery of parent workshops including a sensory awareness workshop which is part of the sensory support which is offered for children and families within the children’s learning disability service.
The post holder will work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high quality individualised care is delivered which ensures safety and a commitment to promoting wellbeing and maximising independence.
Contribute to multi-disciplinary formulations and advise on evidence based, specialist interventions to promote the emotional health and wellbeing of children, young people and families affected by changes to their mental health.
Coordinate treatment planning & interventions, reviews and case closure planning.
Provide training to families, carers and support staff on how to facilitate purposeful engagement in self-care, productivity and leisure activities
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.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Friday 31 Jan 2025