Occupational Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Blackburn; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Blackburn is seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapist to join their multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients across various settings. The role includes providing occupational therapy assessment and intervention for diverse mental and physical health needs. Candidates will develop individualized care plans and engage with service users. This position encourages applications from under-represented groups and offers flexible working patterns to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering care to complex mental health or physical health needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams.
• Skills in developing personalized care plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide occupational therapy assessment and intervention.
• Develop individualized care plans focused on recovery.
• Engage with service users and their families.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Holistic assessment

Individualized care plans

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

We are seeking a dynamic Occupational Therapist to work in the different occupational therapy services across the East Lancashire geography, delivering care to patients.

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. Together you will devise individualised care plans which place recovery through occupation at the heart of the interventions provided.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a joint rotational scheme offering 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. This post will allow you to develop skills and competencies across a range of specialist clinical areas. The rotations on offer may include:

• Community paediatrics
• Community mental health
• Inpatient mental health
• Acute admission
• Inpatient medical
• Inpatient orthopaedics
• Inpatient neurology/stroke
• Community stroke
• Community rehabilitation
• Community neurology

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under‑represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support 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 and flexi‑time.

You will be expected to have well developed interpersonal skills to establish and maintain relationships with other staff within wider services where service users are linked in. You will seek to establish and maintain useful communication with relevant carers/family/friends negotiating appropriate levels of involvement through agreement with the service and remaining sensitive to the particular needs of the individual and his/her carers.

The successful candidate will receive regular professional supervision from senior occupational therapists. Learning and development needs will be identified through the appraisal process and there will be a wide range of other learning opportunities available through LSCFT and ELHT training offers and best practice forums.

This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Dec 2025