Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen for an Occupational Therapist to join the occupational therapy rotation in central Lancashire, which is a well-established rotation post with a variety of learning opportunities. The rotation offers the opportunity to undertake occupational therapy in acute mental health, forensic services, and community mental health.
You will be involved in the maintenance and delivery of Occupational Therapy Services across the Trust, including the coordination and implementation of tailored specific treatment programmes for your own caseload. There are excellent facilities - ranging from ward-based involvement to a custom-built therapeutic resources centre (with a range of facilities including a sports hall and gym), a vocational rehabilitation facility, and a social centre, as well as accessing the community and community-based interventions within CMHT.
Lancashire and South Cumbria Care NHS Foundation Trust is a Community and Mental Health Trust whose services include mental health and substance misuse services to the residents of Lancashire and South Cumbria. The Trust also provides low and medium secure care and forensic services.
Secure Mental Health Care for Lancashire and South Cumbria is provided at Guild Lodge, Whittingham. The service has steadily expanded since its inception in 1999 and currently has a range of inpatient and community services including 164 beds.
Main duties of the job
Please note: A means of transport is essential and applicants must be willing to undergo an enhanced DBS Clearance as part of the pre-employment checks.
To provide an occupational therapy service to those accessing mental health services across Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust. The post is a rotational post, whereby the post holder rotates to a new area of practice every 12 months, ranging from inpatient acute mental health services to forensic mental health.
As part of the Occupational Therapy Service, the job holder will be required to work in a variety of clinical areas with an allocated caseload.
The post holder will be supervised to develop their understanding of the relationship between occupation, mental and physical health, to provide occupational therapy utilizing assessment from the Model of Human Occupation and C-MOPE. In order to maintain, restore or create a beneficial match for the individual between their abilities, the demands of their occupations in the areas of self-care, productivity, leisure, and the demands of the environment.
About us
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing 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.
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Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Diploma/BSc/MSc in Occupational Therapy (OT)
* Ongoing registration with Health Professionals Council.
Knowledge
* Some knowledge of current best practice in OT (including secure mental health services).
* Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice.
* Understanding of team dynamics.
* Basic knowledge of health legislation and current practice, including CPA and risk assessment and management.
* Basic knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
* Health, safety, and risk awareness.
Experience
* Application of the Occupational Therapy process.
* Broad range of undergraduate practice placement experience.
* Use of functional assessment and the analysis of occupation.
* Positive learning from experience gained in a mental health setting pre or post qualification.
Skills
* Ability to work single-handedly with individuals and groups.
* Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
* Effective written and oral communication skills.
Special requirements
* Commitment to client-centered, non-discriminatory practice.
* Commitment to lifelong learning.
* Willingness to work flexibly to meet client needs.
* Enhanced DBS disclosure willingness.
* Mandatory Violence Reduction Training fitness.
* Ability to meet travel requirements of the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist
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