Senior Occupational Therapist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust seeks an experienced Occupational Therapist to join the Furness Home Based Treatment Team in Barrow. The role involves assessment and interventions within a mental health context, supervision of junior staff, and regional service development.

The post is on-site full-time with regular home visits across the community, requiring frequent travel. You will work within a multidisciplinary team, supported by supervision from a Clinical Specialist,

Qualifications

• Qualified Occupational Therapist.
• Experience in mental health settings.
• Willingness to travel for home visits and work on-site.

Responsibilities

• Provide OT assessments and interventions for home-based treatment of adults with mental health needs.
• Supervise junior staff and contribute to professional development.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team and align with best practice frameworks.
• Travel regularly to service users’ homes to deliver care.

Skills

Time management

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Occupational Therapy

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking qualified Occupational Therapist to join the Furness Home Based Treatment Team based in Barrow. The post will be supported under the supervision of a network Occupational Therapy Clinical Specialist. The fully aligned role will involve clinical Occupational Therapy provision working within a multidisciplinary team within the adult acute setting for service users experiencing mental health difficulties requiring home-based treatment.

The successful candidate will provide Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions to service users to support recovery within home treatment. The successful candidate will also undertake supervision of junior staff and assist in local developments related to the Occupational Therapy services locally and across the footprint of Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. This role requires the successful applicant to be based on-site on a full-time basis. In addition, as the role involves regular home visits across the community, the post holder will be required to travel frequently and must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role.

The successful candidate will be supported within Occupational Therapy Best Practice Forums and shadowing opportunities will be provided via Occupational Therapists working within other home-based treatment teams within the trust.

We are looking for an Occupational Therapist who is enthusiastic about working within mental health and possesses good time management skills and a compassionate approach to others. The successful candidate will be an able team worker with excellent communication skills with experience of working successfully within busy environments. If you have these qualities and wish to work with a supportive team who strive to achieve high standards,

The post holder will have substantial experience, special interest, and expertise in Mental Health Occupational Therapy, the post holder will use their deep understanding of the relationship between occupation and mental health to provide occupational therapy to maintain, restore or create a match beneficial to the individual between the abilities of the person, the demands of her/his occupations in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure and the demands of the environment (adapted from Creek 2003).

The post holder will deliver a range of group and/or individual interventions drawn from relevant frames of reference, demonstrating sophisticated clinical reasoning skills. They will prioritise planning and delivering interventions for people whose mental health problems have a marked impact on their occupational functioning, who demonstrate high occupational risk and who have complex occupational needs.

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,

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.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Philip Bradley Job title: Occupational Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01772 773525