Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Our LSCFT Adult's Learning Disability Team are looking for a new member to join our team!
Through investment in to our teams, we have a new Band 7 Occupational Therapy post.
If you would like to progress your career and develop your experiences by working with adults with Learning Disabilities, we would love to hear from you.
The team is hoping to find an Occupational Therapist who is adaptable, highly motivated, with excellent communication skills, and who is as passionate about working with individuals with complex needs. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessments, evidence-based interventions, and support for adults 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; however, this post is primarily based within the central location.
Main duties of the job
1. Assess an individual's occupational performance in the environment.
2. Support individuals and their families to engage and participate in everyday activities.
3. Activities of daily living, leisure activities, and productivity.
4. Develop focused care plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt care plans as necessary.
5. Deliver evidenced based specialist Occupational therapy interventions.
6. Support delivery of workshops to families, staff teams, and external providers.
7. Deliver clinical groups to service users and their carers.
8. 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.
9. Engage with and network with community providers.
10. Work with peer support workers to ensure coproduction is offered and delivered across the service.
11. Contribute to multi-disciplinary formulations and advise on evidence-based, specialist interventions to promote the emotional health and wellbeing of individuals and families affected by changes to their mental health.
12. Coordinate treatment planning & interventions, reviews, and case closure planning.
13. Provide training to families, carers, and support staff on how to facilitate purposeful engagement in self-care, productivity, and leisure activities.
About us
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.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
To take a lead in actively participating in role modelling interventions and implementing positive support approaches. Provide clinical supervision and leadership to staff. To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity. To promote the role of Occupational Therapy and areas of specialist knowledge, providing additional education where necessary. Where necessary, support the delivery of Occupational Therapy using the established pathways.
Person Specification
Education
* Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy.
* Current professional registration with HCPC as Occupational Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration.
* Masters module/post grad qualification in relevant field of clinical expertise (or be/willing to work towards) / post-grad qualification/equivalent knowledge & experience to masters level.
Knowledge
* Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
* In-depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents.
* Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks - policy and procedure.
Experience
* Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality.
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice.
* Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change.
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
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata.
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