Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Our LSCFT Children’s Learning Disability Team is 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 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.
Main duties of the job
1. Assess the young person’s occupational performance in the environment, supporting children, young people, and their families to engage and participate in everyday activities.
2. Develop focused care plans, ensuring regular reviews to monitor progress and adapt the care plan as necessary.
3. Deliver evidenced-based specialist Occupational therapy interventions.
4. Support delivery of parent workshops including a sensory awareness workshop which is part of the sensory support offered for children and families within the children’s learning disability service.
5. Work as a member of the Multi-disciplinary Team ensuring that high-quality individualised care is delivered, promoting wellbeing and maximising independence.
6. 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.
7. Coordinate treatment planning & interventions, reviews, and case closure planning.
8. Provide training to families, carers, and support staff on how to facilitate purposeful engagement in self-care, productivity, and leisure activities.
Working for our organisation
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.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
* HCPC Registration Degree / Diploma in Occupational Therapy Evidence of CPD in relevant areas
* Member of the RCOT Post graduate qualification in a specialist field
Knowledge
* Good knowledge of current best practice within the clinical area
* Knowledge of health legislation and current practice, risk assessment, and management
* Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
* Ability to work effectively within an MDT
* Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks
* Excellent time management skills
* Understanding of professional ethics and their application in practice
* Evidence of supervision of assistant staff / students
* Post graduate training courses
* Experience of participation in audit and research
Experience
* Application of the Occupational Therapy process and relevant evidence base.
* Emerging and/or experience of occupational formulation or formulating treatment plans.
* Multi-disciplinary working.
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service/practice
* Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
Skills & Abilities
* Excellent written and oral presentation skills
* Good comprehensive Occupational Therapy assessment skills
* Ability to prioritise a workload effectively
* Good/Effective IT skills
* Problem solving and demonstrable team worker
* Able to work independently as an autonomous practitioner
* Commitment to personal development
* Ability to make sound clinical decisions, with support/supervision
* Ability to analyse and interpret data and apply to practice.
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
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Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve, so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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