# Senior Occupational Therapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-occupational-therapist/04408eba-515e-4a77-9716-8beace441e2a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-occupational-therapist/04408eba-515e-4a77-9716-8beace441e2a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Furness Home Based Treatment Team - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Occupational Therapist - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 pa - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T11:00:37.128Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/BarrowinFurness/Lancashire_South_Cumbria_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Occupational_Therapist/Senior_Occupational_Therapist-v8233745 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8233745?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lscft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking qualified Occupational Therapist to join the Furness Home Based Treatment Team based in Barrow. The post will be supported under the supervision of a network Occupational Therapy Clinical Specialist. The fully aligned role will involve clinical Occupational Therapy provision working within a multidisciplinary team within the adult acute setting for service users experiencing mental health difficulties requiring home-based treatment. The successful candidate will provide Occupational Therapy assessments and interventions to service users to support recovery within home treatment. The successful candidate will also undertake supervision of junior staff and assist in local developments related to the Occupational Therapy services locally and across the footprint of Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. This role requires the successful applicant to be based on-site on a full-time basis. In addition, as the role involves regular home visits across the community, the post holder will be required to travel frequently and must be able to meet the travel requirements of the role. The successful candidate will be supported within Occupational Therapy Best Practice Forums and shadowing opportunities will be provided via Occupational Therapists working within other home-based treatment teams within the trust. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for an Occupational Therapist who is enthusiastic about working within mental health and possesses good time management skills and a compassionate approach to others. The successful candidate will be an able team worker with excellent communication skills with experience of working successfully within busy environments. If you have these qualities and wish to work with a supportive team who strive to achieve high standards, please apply. The post holder will have substantial experience, special interest, and expertise in Mental Health Occupational Therapy, the post holder will use their deep understanding of the relationship between occupation and mental health to provide occupational therapy to maintain, restore or create a match beneficial to the individual between the abilities of the person, the demands of her/his occupations in the areas of self-care, productivity and leisure and the demands of the environment (adapted from Creek 2003). The post holder will deliver a range of group and/or individual interventions drawn from relevant frames of reference, demonstrating sophisticated clinical reasoning skills. They will prioritise planning and delivering interventions for people whose mental health problems have a marked impact on their occupational functioning, who demonstrate high occupational risk and who have complex occupational needs. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role. ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Detailed knowledge of how mental health problems impact on occupational performance and how occupational therapy theory informs practice within community mental health settings - Knowledge of current best practice in community mental health and awareness of relevant government directives and legislation - Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessments and interventions using expert level clinical reasoning ### Experience **Essential** - Ability to demonstrate a significant level of experience within a Occupational Therapy a mental health setting - Familiarity with audit processes - Extensive clinical experiences including individual and group work in mental health specialties ### Education/qualifications **Essential** - - Diploma/BSC (Hons) in Occupational Therapy (OT) - - Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration - - Post Graduate training relevant to mental health work in appropriate speciality ## Documents - [jdps (pdf, 608.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10543949) - [we do more at lscft (pdf, 654.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2256) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.