Occupational Therapist

Overview

The successful candidate will work alongside senior occupational therapists, therapy assistants and other members of the multidisciplinary teams to provide holistic and high quality assessment and treatment to a range of service users. You will provide occupational therapy assessment and intervention to adults and children with a range of complex mental health or/and physical health needs. This post offers a joint rotational scheme with 6 monthly rotations in paediatric, mental health and physical health, acute and community based services, provided by East Lancashire Hospital Trust and Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust.

The rotations may include community paediatrics, community mental health, inpatient mental health, acute admission, inpatient medical, inpatient orthopaedics, inpatient neurology/stroke, community stroke, community rehabilitation, and community neurology. You will be expected to develop skills and competencies across a range of specialist clinical areas.

• Devise individualised care plans which place recovery through occupation at the heart of the interventions provided.
• Establish and maintain well developed interpersonal skills to build relationships with other staff within wider services where service users are linked in.
• Communicate with relevant carers/family/friends, negotiating appropriate levels of involvement through agreement with the service while remaining sensitive to the needs of the individual and their carers.
• Work under regular professional supervision from senior occupational therapists; participate in appraisal-based learning and development opportunities offered through LSCFT and ELHT training offers and best practice forums.

• Consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as early as possible; vacancies may close as soon as a sufficient number of applications are received. If not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date, assume you have been unsuccessful.
• Ensure that communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address provided on the application form and that referees’ contact details (email and telephone numbers) are available.
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We are seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapist to work in the different occupational therapy services across the East Lancashire geography, delivering care to patients. Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve. As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults (with specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care), specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, extensive community physical health and well-being services, and support for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff across more than 400 sites, offering opportunities for medics, mental health professionals, nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, and those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services. For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, and support flexible working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time to promote work/life balance.