Job summary
Do you want to influence the delivery of occupational therapy services to working age adults with mental illness but continue to remain very hands on clinically?
LSCFT has a large occupational therapy workforce, working with working age adults with mental illness in multi-disciplinary teams, in in-patient and community settings across the organisations footprint.
Based in East Lancashire this post holder would work with clinical colleagues from a range of professions, team leaders, service managers and system partners to develop seamless evidence based pathways and support staff to deliver person centred, evidence based assessments and interventions. They would lead on the continual improvement of the clinical offer and further development of the evidence base through service evaluation and research.
You will be registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council, educated to Masters Level in your area of professional expertise (or working towards this), have strong leadership and advanced clinical skills and significant experience of working across organisational boundaries, to innovate and transform services.
In exchange we will support you to achieve your potential as both a senior leader and a clinician. If you are wanting to join us on our improvement journey and take the next exciting steps in your career, we'd love to hear from you.
For further information contact:
Holly Pye: holly.pye@lscft.nhs.uk
Margaret Michael: margaret.michael@lscft.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
As the consultant occupational therapist you will work across the four pillars of clinical practice, professionally leading the allied health professionals working with working age adults with mental illness in the Pennine locality. You would carry a caseload of complex patients appropriate to your specialism, co-work people's care with less experienced colleagues and offer clinical and profession supervision to senior occupational therapy colleagues from across the organisation.
About us
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 interview.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional in appropriate field of specialty
- Master's degree in health related subject ,relevant to area of clinical expertise, in progress or working towards
- Level 7 study or equivalent study in specialty related subject
- Evidence of continuing personal learning and development
- Student educator accredited and associated experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge in professional practice relating to service area.
- Good Understanding of the role of partner organisations
- Thorough understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to practice, and an understanding of the broader policy drivers
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of contemporary, evidence-based practice and best practice
- Ability to undertake critical analysis of complex policy information and synthesise into an interpretable format
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post professional qualifying clinical experience providing highly advanced clinical skills within a senior position
- Clinical leadership and change management
- Effective working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services
- Evidence of significant contribution to clinical developments
- Provision of education to various and multi-professional groups
- Involvement in research, audit and clinical effectiveness
- Evidence of applying research in practice
- Ability to work autonomously in taking critical decisions
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registered Allied Health Professional in appropriate field of specialty
- Master's degree in health related subject ,relevant to area of clinical expertise, in progress or working towards
- Level 7 study or equivalent study in specialty related subject
- Evidence of continuing personal learning and development
- Student educator accredited and associated experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge in professional practice relating to service area.
- Good Understanding of the role of partner organisations
- Thorough understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to practice, and an understanding of the broader policy drivers
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of contemporary, evidence-based practice and best practice
- Ability to undertake critical analysis of complex policy information and synthesise into an interpretable format
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post professional qualifying clinical experience providing highly advanced clinical skills within a senior position
- Clinical leadership and change management
- Effective working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services
- Evidence of significant contribution to clinical developments
- Provision of education to various and multi-professional groups
- Involvement in research, audit and clinical effectiveness
- Evidence of applying research in practice
- Ability to work autonomously in taking critical decisions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
