Job vacancy: Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist- Neonatal Care, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Preston

Job summary

Main area: Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref: 438-PB2825-B

Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Preston Hospital
Town: Preston
Salary: £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 07/09/2025 23:59
Interview date: 24/09/2025

Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist- Neonatal Care

Band 7

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We will offer you a supportive work environment where you can develop your specialist skills and knowledge. You will be a key provider in the delivery of high-quality health care. There are opportunities for personal and professional development.

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

To directly support the delivery of Occupational Therapy to patients
To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapies and children's service stakeholders
To support service development and planning. * Manage own caseload and prioritisation based on clinical need
Record assessment, differential diagnosis, clinical reasoning and analysis clearly in patients' notes
Record reasoned treatment and management plans in patient notes
Demonstrate advanced level of assessment and treatment skills to meet patients clinical need
To provide leadership and management support

This post offers great development opportunities!

If you would like to find out more or come and see what we do, please contact us to arrange a time convenient for you. Sarah Tandy or Pam Price Occupational Therapists Paediatrics 01772 524114

*PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE INTERVIEW DATE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*

Person specification

Qualifications and Education

Essential criteria

HCPC registered
Occupational Therapy degree/diploma
Evidence of CPD in paediatrics

Desirable criteria

Practice Placement Educator
Member of RCOT
Masters qualification or working towards
NBO/NBAS, NIDCAP, FINE I/II, SI or willingness to complete

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

Previous varied paediatric experience with knowledge and experience of a range of assessment and intervention/approaches in neonatal and/or paediatric care
Knowledge of child development, common neonatal and paediatric conditions and indepth knowledge of developmental disabilities and factors influencing early infant development
Experience in developing the OT’s role.
Proven experience in a wide range of clinical areas, and working with children of a variety of ages from 0-19
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Managerial experience or willingness to develop
Relevant postgraduate Occupational Therapy NHS clinical experience, preferably inclusive of neonatal care

Desirable criteria

Experience in monitoring work performance
Membership of speciality groups
Previous Band 7 experience
Knowledge and experience of using a wide range of different infant assessments eg. Bayley Scales of Infant Development, NBO, NBAS, Prechtl General Movement Assessment or willingness to complete
General Movement Assessment or willingness to complete

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Demonstrated ability to carry out occupation based assessment
Application of Occupational Therapy models of practice and evidence-based practice.
Management of a varied neonatal or paediatric caseload with evidence of skills in acute and/or community settings
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of disabilities on patient, families and carers
Ability to manage caseloads, prioritise workloads and work independently.
Ability to prioritise designated caseload and departmental duties.
Willingness to develop own knowledge and practice in neonatal and contributes to the development of others
Advanced clinical reasoning skills.
Demonstrates ability to seek, analyse and draw valid conclusions from available information
Demonstrate problem solving approach and sound clinical decision making to facilitate a timely discharge.
Demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of assessment techniques and tools.
Ability to analyse tasks and activities, synthesise findings and develop goal orientated treatment plans.
Ability to proactively resource information to address patient’s needs in a timely manner.
Able to use coaching strategies to support parent participation in caring for infant
Developing and providing education and teaching programmes to other professionals and students
Ability to take an overview of the service, and to initiate and contribute to its development. Demonstrate an understanding of health and safety, importance of confidentiality and equal opportunities in relation to patient care and departmental operation.
Ability to support the supervision and education of junior staff and students.

Desirable criteria

To demonstrate an understanding of internal and external factors affecting Occupational Therapy provision
Experience in collecting and evaluating audit and quality assurance programmes and participating research
Previous experience in applying Clinical Governance to practice.
Involvement in the training and education of others (i.e., carers, staff and educators)
Contributes to research and/or innovation within the profession and specialty and across professional teams.

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

Willingness to work flexibly.
Excellent communication and interactive skills.
Good personal organisational and time management skills.
Ability to manage and recognise differences of opinion in both patient related and interprofessional settings coping positively with interpersonal tensions/barriers.
Proactive approach.
Ability to positively manage exposure to patients and environments which may be highly distressing, antagonistic, open to aggression and unpleasant.
Commitment to lifelong learning
Adherence to College of Occupational Therapy, HCPC guidelines and codes of ethics and professional conduct.
Able to provide effective timely care across the acute Trust within neonatal services
Takes responsibility for implementation of Trust health and safety policies in local working environment.

Desirable criteria

Membership of professional body.

Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-Offenders is available Here

To support you in your application process we’ve created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support and rewards and benefits. To help you get the best from your application we’ve also put together two guides to help you make your application the best it can be. Just click here and here to go through them, or have them open as you complete your application.

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We are reminded everyday of how important life is, so as part of our Working Smarter pledge we offer a variety of flexible working options and wellbeing support to enable our people to find and maintain the right work-life balance.

Secondments

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Young People

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Sarah Tandy

Job title

Clinical Lead Paediatric Occupational Therapist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

01772 524114

Additional information

Sarah Tandy or Pam Price Occupational Therapists Paediatrics 01772 524114

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Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist- Neonatal Care

Band 7

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications and Education

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

Documents to download

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