Overview
Fantastic 12 month secondment or fixed term opportunity.
Are you a qualified Occupational Therapist that is interested in making a difference? Are you passionate about working with people with a learning disability and/or autistic adults? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with opportunities for creative and dynamic approaches to your work? If so, this is the job and team for you!
The Enhanced Support And Liaison Service (ESLS) is a newly formed service that supports adults with learning disabilities and/or autistic adults who are at risk of placement breakdown, at risk of hospital admission, and/or need support to access mainstream mental health services.
We are looking for an Occupational Therapist with clinical and professional experience in working with individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism. You will work alongside our lead OT to ensure that individuals with learning disabilities and/or autism with sensory needs and/or difficulties with activities of daily living, and their support providers, benefit from a well-co-ordinated pro-active, specialist, efficient and effective occupational therapy service.
Please note the job description is subject to job evaluation. The interview date is 20 May 2026.
Responsibilities / Pathways
You will provide professional advice and support across the three pathways within ESLS. The three pathways you will work on are:
* Community Liaison Pathways
* Inpatient/discharge Pathway
* Enhanced and intensive community Intervention & Support
ESLS works with teams and services across the trust to provide support and intervention for those who are currently resident within Mental Health inpatient services, who are at risk of admission to these services or who are at risk of placement breakdown. This support is primarily through liaison, advice, training and consultation with other trust services and with wider system partners, including the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Lincolnshire County Council, United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, Police and Voluntary and Third Sector Organisations.
The service includes providing individual assessment, therapy and management, training, advice and a consultative approach. The focus of all support and intervention is to adhere to the Building the Right Support Principles for this cohort within the NHS Long Term Plan – maintaining and supporting individuals to live well in the community, by reducing inappropriate hospital admissions and working to prevent placement breakdowns.
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of outstanding for well-led and good overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Charlotte Mellows, Job title: Lead Occupational Therapist, Email: charlotte.mellows@nhs.net, Telephone: 01522 458621
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