Job summary
- Main area
- Occupational Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 351-PEN1083-CL
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- LD Intensive Support Team
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Occupational Therapist
Band 7
Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
- Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) Adult Learning Disability Services are looking to recruit a new Occupational Therapist to join our Intensive Support Team.
Through continued investment in our services, we are pleased to offer a Band 7 Occupational Therapy post within the learning disability intensive support team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to progress your career and further develop specialist skills in working with adults with learning disabilities and complex needs.
This post sits within Adult Learning Disability Services and will work closely with both the Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) and the inpatient hospitals, specifically, Watermeadow View.
We are seeking an Occupational Therapist who is adaptable, highly motivated, and passionate about improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and their families. You will have excellent communication skills and experience of working with individuals with complex needs, risk and behavioural distress.
The post holder will work as part of a multi disciplinary team, providing specialist Occupational Therapy assessment, formulation and evidence based interventions to adults with learning disabilities, their families and carers.
Main duties of the job
Working in the Intensive Support Team, this post is responsible for delivering specialist Occupational Therapy assessment and intervention across Lancashire & South Cumbria for people with Learning Disabilities. The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, treatment, planning, delivery and evaluation of evidence-based occupational therapy interventions, to people with learning disability, mental illness and behaviours of concern.
Working for our organisation
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.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- - Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- - Current professional registration with HPC as Occupational Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
- - Masters module/post grad qualification in relevant field of clinical expertise (or working towards) / post-grad qualification/equivalent knowledge & experience to masters level
- - Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise.
- - Current accredited field work educator.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- - Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
- - In-depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents.
- - Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks – policy and procedure
- - Change management skills
- - Excellent time management skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- - Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality
- - Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
- - Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
- - Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students.
- - Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
- - Highly advanced and specialised practice skills in field of expertise
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- - Ability to communicate highly complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to all levels in the medical and non-medical field at the appropriate level.
- - Sound knowledge of psycho-social problems and ability to gain patient confidence and co-operation.
- - Show initiative, enthusiasm and motivation for excellence and the development of self and others.
- - Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion skills.
- - Sound understand of Safeguarding agenda including MCA and DOLS
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carol A Harper
- Job title
- Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 777494
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