Senior Occupational Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2024 |
| Location: | Leyland, PR26 6TY |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6692151/351-CEN1066-RA |
Summary
Do you hold a passion for supporting children and young people to meet their occupational potential? Are you looking for variety with your day to day clinical practice? Do you want to build on your existing paediatric skills or are you looking for a career change and feel you have transferrable skills that would be well suited to paediatric occupational therapy?
We are looking for individuals with an interest in delivering occupational therapy to children and young people with long term neurological and genetic conditions (e.g. Cerebral Palsy, Encephalitis, Metabolic Disorders, Rett Syndrome). The post holders will provide support to children and young people who experience difficulties with: engaging in developmentally appropriate play, maintaining a functional posture and engaging in essential everyday activities due to physical limitations and environmental barriers. Intervention includes therapeutic handling, postural management, moving and handling recommendations and environmental adaptation.
We are looking for individuals who are keen to invest in their own development and 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.
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 further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Oct 2024