Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist- Neonatology & Neurodevelopment | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

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The South West Neonatal Network has the exciting opportunity to recruit a Regional Lead Neonatal Occupational Therapist. If you are passionate about neonatal care and the role that Occupational Therapists and wider Allied Health Professionals play in supporting neonatal families, this opportunity is for you.

The Network brings professionals together across the region to ensure that outcome and quality standards are improved within neonatal care, while encouraging continuity and consistency of access to neonatal services. The successful candidate will be a collaborative and innovative professional, with a drive to support development of the neonatal AHP workforce.

To work as a regional member of the South West Neonatal Network with a primary focus of supporting, developing and succession planning the Neonatal Occupational Therapy (OT) workforce.

To facilitate, in line with the recommendations of the National Neonatal Critical Care Review (NCCR) and the NHS Long Term Plan (2019), the delivery of a service to all neonatal units within the network that supports equitable access to and provision of, highly complex, discipline specific, OT knowledge and skills to neonatal infants and their families.

This is a regional post predominantly working from home or from a base office in Bristol. Some travel will be required across the South West region, with very occasional travel nationally. The Network is hosted by BFT.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.  

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.  

 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge. 

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description documents attached to this vacancy.

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Oct 2026