Senior Occupational Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Ormskirk; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Ormskirk is seeking an enthusiastic individual to provide an occupational therapy service for children and young people with long-term neurological conditions. The role involves managing a caseload, conducting comprehensive assessments, and collaborating with a team of skilled therapists to promote effective treatment and engagement. Flexible working patterns are supported, ensuring a positive work/life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Professional and clinical supervision support

Funding for external training courses

Qualifications

• Experience in paediatrics or transferable OT skills required.
• Ability to formulate assessment and treatment plans.
• Experience working in clinical and community settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide occupational therapy service for children and young people.
• Manage a caseload of children with complex needs.
• Undertake comprehensive assessments and establish treatment plans.
• Coordinate and deliver training for health, education, and social care colleagues.

Skills

Child development understanding

Transferable skills from physical/neurological Occupational Therapy

Self-management techniques

Job description

We are specifically looking for an individual with passion and drive to deliver an effective service to children and young people with long term neurological and genetic conditions, with a particular interest in promoting occupational engagement for this client group and utilising compensatory/adaptive approaches. The successful applicant will be involved in supporting all aspects of service provision including:

• self-management/universal support
• targeted advice and strategies
• specialist assessment, advice and therapeutic intervention
• highly specialist assessment and support

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

You will join our team of highly experienced and skilled therapists to offer a service, based in our West Lancashire team, working closely with physiotherapists and speech and language therapists in both clinic and community settings.

We are looking for individuals who already have a good understanding of child development and the challenges faced by this client group or who have transferable skills from other aspects of physical/neurological Occupational Therapy roles, such as postural assessment, equipment and seating provision and adaptions. In return we will support you through professional and clinical supervision, shadowing and co-working opportunities, in-service training, professional forums, trust wide AHP research group, and funding opportunities for relevant external training courses.

We would welcome motivated applicants with direct experience of working with paediatrics or with clearly demonstrable transferable skills.

To work as part of children's integrated therapy team providing an occupational therapy service for children referred for assessment and intervention.

To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.

To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.

To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector organizations, and parents/carers.

To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.

To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.

To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.

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.