Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Occupational Therapy Clinical Lead

The closing date is 02 June 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Band 6/7 (possible development role) 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 to children and young people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (e.g. developmental coordination disorder, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, autistic spectrum disorder) who are experiencing difficulties with the development of their fine motor and coordination skills. We also currently offer environmental assessment for this client group who are experiencing safety related concerns due to challenging behaviours.

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. We are keen to invest in development at all levels of service provision including self-management/universal support; targeted advice and strategies; specialist assessment, advice and therapeutic intervention; and highly specialist assessment and support.

We are looking for suitably trained therapist who can deliver on the pathway and contribute to its ongoing development. We would be interested in supporting a motivated B6 to develop into this position due to previous successful development processes offered in this specialist team.

Main duties of the job

As a band B6/B7 clinical leader, you will be a clinical specialist in the area of Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and fine 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 lead on pathway development and implementation, and competency development for occupational therapist, support staff and students. In terms of service development, you will have a particular focus on protecting the specialist nature of our offer by establishing links with universal services and identifying how our service can effectively support children and young people to stay at self-management where this is clinically appropriate; this will require networking and innovation particularly regarding the use of web-based resources and wide reaching education/ group based support.

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.

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.

Date posted

19 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CEN1194-CL-B

Job locations

Childrens OT Hyndburn & Ribble Valley

Accrington

BB5 1RT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

-Professional Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
-Current Professional Registration with HCPC
-Evidence of continued professional development
-Evidence of formal training / self study / specialist experience to Masters level equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

Detailed understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
Extensive knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs.
Extensive knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes and their applications for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
Extensive critical understanding & knowledge of research, evidence-based practice and current issues relating to client group
Knowledge of local and national clinical guidelines relating to their profession and their implications.

Experience

Essential

Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area
Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
Extensive experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community settings.
Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates
Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
Confident to work independently as lead specialist.
Ability to manage children with challenging behaviours
Demonstrating excellent leadership and team working skills
High level reflective skills in relation to own practice and service delivery.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

-Professional Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
-Current Professional Registration with HCPC
-Evidence of continued professional development
-Evidence of formal training / self study / specialist experience to Masters level equivalent

Knowledge

Essential

Detailed understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
Extensive knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs.
Extensive knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes and their applications for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
Extensive critical understanding & knowledge of research, evidence-based practice and current issues relating to client group
Knowledge of local and national clinical guidelines relating to their profession and their implications.

Experience

Essential

Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area
Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
Extensive experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community settings.
Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates
Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
Confident to work independently as lead specialist.
Ability to manage children with challenging behaviours
Demonstrating excellent leadership and team working skills
High level reflective skills in relation to own practice and service delivery.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Childrens OT Hyndburn & Ribble Valley

Accrington

BB5 1RT

Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Childrens OT Hyndburn & Ribble Valley

Accrington

BB5 1RT

Employer's website

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