Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 11 March 2026 |
| Location: | Radcliffe Bury, M26 2TP |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7793284/311-F894-26-A |
Summary
Our Learning Disabilities Care Hub delivers care in the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with primary care, local authorities and other social and health care and voluntary sector providers. The Learning Disabilities Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams for adults, children and young people as well as two residential services. Our service users are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible experience as well as delivering safe, high-quality care.
The postholder will work closely with clinicians, commissioners, VCSE, learning disability teams, and service users, families and carers.
We are looking to appoint a Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist who is passionate about improving the lives of people with a learning disability, their families and carers working in the award winning admissions avoidance service, Radcliffe Place.The postholder will develop and provide a highly specialist Occupational Therapy service to service users who have complex needs within the context of a multidisciplinary team. This will involve working with vulnerable and extremely challenging individuals. Assessment and interventions will be delivered using person and relationship centered approaches within the unit and at times, across the learning disability care hub supporting other locality community learning disability teams.
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.
If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel
Main Duties and Responsibilities
• To provide a safe, effective, responsive, efficient, timely, occupational therapy service to people with learning disabilities, their families and carer’s
• To undertake a range of comprehensive assessments with individuals with complex and challenging needs. This assessment work requires a highly specialist knowledge base on which to practice
• To develop a range of person centered, specialist interventions to meet the needs of people with a learning disability
• To monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of intervention packages by evaluating evidence-based practice and implementing outcome measures
• To develop individualised therapy guidelines in a format that are easily understood by people with a learning disability, their families and carer’s
• To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive information from service users, their families and carer’s. This requires highly developed communication skills to overcome the significant barriers experienced by this client group.
• The post holder will work in a person-centered way across a variety of community settings that are meaningful to the individual. The comprehensive / specialist assessment and subsequent intervention addresses the person’s physical, cognitive, perceptual, psychological, sensory, social and emotional needs, in the area of activities of meaningful occupation. This assessment work requires a highly specialist knowledge base on which to practice
• To embrace a proactive approach to the development of a healthy and active lifestyle
• To manage a complex cases and prioritise cases, balancing own workload
• To deliver the care pathways and take an active role in the review of these pathways.
• To undertake assessment of personal and environmental risk to individuals and to advise on measures to minimise or manage risk within the individuals support networks.
• To utilise peer support from other occupational therapists within the care hub and across the Greater Manchester footprint
• To demonstrate negotiation skills in dealing with complex and challenging issues including families and other professionals
• To ensure accurate records are maintained ensuring all documentation meets trust record keeping standards, this includes electronic or paper records.
• To actively network with other members of the team and wider care hub to support projects and ensure best practice is maintained.
• To attend and contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings to enable sharing and development of therapeutic practice
• To provide consultation to the wider multi-disciplinary team with complex cases
This advert closes on Monday 23 Feb 2026