Specialist Occupational Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2026 |
| Location: | Lancaster, LA1 4JJ |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7689132/351-BAY883-JD |
Summary
Are you an experienced Occupational Therapist ready to take the next step in your career? This is your opportunity to make a real difference within the Mental Health Inpatient Services across The Bay Network. You’ll work at The Orchard and Kentmere Units, supporting recovery-focused care.
As a Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, you will lead on complex clinical interventions, champion best practice, and influence service development. Your expertise will help drive innovation and inspire colleagues within a growing Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce.
• Provide professional governance and assurance for Occupational Therapy inpatient services within the inpatient services, ensuring safe, effective, and high-quality care.
• Support the collective sustainability of OT inpatient provision across the Bay Network, providing support in a collaborative workforce approach for both older adult and working-age adult services
• Deliver advanced clinical interventions and contribute to service improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and support colleagues, fostering a culture of learning and development.
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, please ask.
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.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025