Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced occupational therapist to join our children's therapy service in the Pennine Locality at LSCFT.

We are specifically looking for individuals with passion and drive to deliver an effective service for children and young people who have challenges with their motor coordination skills impacting on occupational performance in their everyday environments. The clinical pathway currently supports children and young people who may have diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disability (e.g. developmental coordination disorder, attention deficit disorder, autistic spectrum disorder) and children and young people with a range of developmental and biomechanical difficulties who may also have motor skills difficulties that are impacting on their occupational performance.

We are investing in developing the clinical care pathway for this client group using a tiered approach to ensure it achieves the best clinical outcomes for the population of children and young people in need of guidance, support, assessment and therapeutic intervention.

We are looking for suitably trained and motivated therapist who can effectively deliver and contribute to the ongoing development of the pathway. With a positive focus on tiered service provision, we are developing self-management/universal support; targeted advice and strategies; specialist assessment, advice and therapeutic intervention; and highly specialist assessment and support.

Main duties of the job

You will be based in one of our three teams across the Pennine footprint, but you will contribute to clinical care for children and young people residing across the locality.

You will be a clinical specialist in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and motor- coordination difficulties. You will have a high level of experience in a range of assessment tools (both standardised and non-standardised) and treatment approaches. You will have a high understanding of child development and the challenges faced by this client group. You will work with the OT Principal Practitioner for this pathway and lead on pathway implementation, and competency development for occupational therapist, support staff and students in Pennine. You will have a particular focus on protecting the specialist nature of our offer and by supporting links with universal services, effectively supporting children and young people to access services at the appropriate tier level for their current needs. This will require networking and the use of web-based resources and wide-reaching education/ targeted support.

About us

You will work with your peer clinical lead with a clinical focus on specialist/highly specialist assessment and therapy provision, particularly for children and young people with cooccurring and complex NDD profiles.

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 the interview.

For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Acorn Primary Health Care Centre

Blackburn Road

Accrington

BB5 1RT

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Acorn Primary Health Care Centre

Blackburn Road

Accrington

BB5 1RT

Employer's website

https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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