Job requirements
Essential
26 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Aptitudes
Good communication skills
- Aptitudes
Good team player
- Aptitudes
Leadership
- Aptitudes
Honest
- Aptitudes
Trustworthy
- Aptitudes
Hardworking
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent clinical leadership skills
- Skills & Abilities
Sound IT skills
- Skills & Abilities
Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner
- Skills & Abilities
Proven responsibility for own decision making whilst working closely within a team
- Skills & Abilities
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge & Experience
Significant post graduate experience across a wide range of specialities
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience working within paediatrics at a senior level (Band7 or above) including neonatal care, neurodevelopment or neurosciences
- Knowledge & Experience
Specialist knowledge and application of OT assessment and interventions in neonatal units
- Knowledge & Experience
Evidence working within a multidisciplinary team with clear understanding of roles and expectations
- Knowledge & Experience
Proven experience of research, audit and/or service development
- Knowledge & Experience
Proven experience in developing and delivering teaching, training and supervision of others
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience managing individuals and managing team performance
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of guideline / policy writing
- Knowledge & Experience
Knowledge of key national issues/agendas relevant to the neonatal field
- Qualifications & Training
HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
- Qualifications & Training
Degree or equivalent in Occupational Therapy
- Qualifications & Training
Evidence of relevant post-graduate CPD equivalent to at least MSc level
- Qualifications & Training
Relevant Neonatal Training courses e.g. NBAS, NBO, FINE, Infant Bobath, Sensory Beginnings, General Movement, EI Smart, Bayley IV, miniAHA
Desirable
8 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills & Abilities
Ability to fabricate upper limb splints from a range of materials
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of hospital discharge planning and caseload prioritisation
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of prescribing specialised paediatric equipment.
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of regional working
- Knowledge & Experience
Experience of leading and implementing service developments, including developing business cases and large scale change management
- Qualifications & Training
Management / Leadership Training
- Qualifications & Training
Registration with RCOT
- Qualifications & Training
Master’s degree or ability/commitment to undertake a health care related higher degree (MA/MSc) and complete within 4-5 years
Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification, please refer to the job description documents attached to this vacancy.
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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This advert is for Clinical Lead Occupational Therapist- Neonatology & Neurodevelopment with University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust in Weston-super-mare, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 per annum, pro rata for part time roles. The contract type is Permanent: Full or part time considered. The application deadline is 29 Oct 2026.
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