Regional Lead Neonatal Occupational Therapist

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; Remote; GBP 53,000 - 61,000

Job description

Regional Lead Neonatal Occupational Therapist

Band 8a

Main area: Neonatal Occupational Therapy

Grade: Band 8a

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time - 15 hours per week (Remote working from home, with office base available. Flexible working options.)

Job ref: 387-WC9811-JL

Site: Remote working. Office base at Myrtle Road Offices, Bristol.

Town: Bristol

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 22/04/2025 23:59

As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

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 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 the development of the AHP workforce and input Occupational Therapy expertise into regional improvement work.

Main duties of the job

To work as a regional member of the Neonatal Operational Delivery Network (ODN) to drive innovation in the delivery of care to neonates and to support and develop the 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.

These are regional posts 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.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. 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.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Knowledge

• Significant experience of acute neonatal clinical care at Band 7 or above
• Evidence of up-to-date skills and is clinically competent in current role
• Experience of the delivery and evaluation of high-quality multidisciplinary education, training and mentoring
• Experience of guideline / policy writing
• Knowledge of key national issues/agendas relevant to the neonatal field
• Experience of managing/mentoring staff
• Experience of leading and implementing service developments, including developing business cases and large scale change management
• Experience of regional working

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Occupational Therapist
• Neonatal training at Masters level or equivalent knowledge and skills
• Post Registration Advanced Paediatric / Neonatal Training
• Extensive Neonatal CPD in line with professional body neonatal competencies and maintenance of a Personal, Professional Profile
• Leadership course/module or recognised Leadership qualification
• Master’s degree or ability/commitment to undertake a health care related higher degree (MA/MSc) and complete within 4-5 years

Skills

• Excellent multidisciplinary team working
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent leadership skills
• Ability to produce written reports
• Ability to adapt to changing needs of the service
• Highly developed time management and organisational skills
• Ability to work unsupervised / independently
• Able to work flexibly with a high degree of autonomy
• Diplomacy and ability to work collaboratively
• Strategic and big-picture thinking
• Self-motivated, able to prioritise and meet changing priorities and deadlines
• Motivated to drive professional development of self as well as others
• Evidence of an enthusiasm for developing practice in current role.
• Excellent role model with high standards of conduct and behaviour
• Positive and proactive approach to problem solving
• Calm and objective
• Able to reflect on own performance

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.