Children’s Occupational Therapist – Neonatal​/Neurodevelopmental

Job Description

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Claire England, Clinical Service Manager - Children's Occupational Therapy. Shortlisting Date: 28th August. Interview Date: 17th September.

Looking for an exciting and rewarding role where you can make a meaningful difference to the lives of babies, families, and their futures? Thanks to significant NHS England funding, an exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic, enthusiastic and highly motivated Occupational Therapists to join our expanding Band 7 neonatal workforce within Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. We are a dedicated and cohesive neonatal AHP team delivering high quality, evidence based developmental care for babies and their families.

Recent investment offers an exciting opportunity to expand our workforce and strengthen AHP provision within neonatal services across St James's University Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary. As we progress through a period of transformation, we are enhancing developmental pathways, improving outcomes and embedding collaborative, family centred practice. This is an exciting time to join our fantastic team and be part of meaningful service improvement.

Successful candidates will join our established team of experienced and supportive neonatal Occupational Therapists. Working within a Family Integrated Care (FiCare) model, the team delivers highly specialised care to infants from preterm – 2 years and their families, across our inpatient level 3 and level 1 neonatal units and outpatient neuro developmental services. This includes working with the neonatal/neurodevelopmental MDT providing assessment and patient/family goal led intervention supporting infant and parental occupations, postural support, developmentally supportive care and identification of developmental concerns, education/training to parents/carers and ward staff, support with transition from hospital to home, assessment and provision of specialist equipment and advocating for their specific needs.

We would love to hear from passionate, forward thinking and dynamic occupational therapists who would like to be part of this exciting service transformation. As our units are on 2 sites across a large city it will be essential to commute between the 2 sites to ensure service need is met efficiently and effectively. Transport is available to move between sites for staff.

Full-time and Part-time available hours negotiable.

The Children's Occupational Therapy team work across Leeds Children's Hospital, covering both inpatient wards and outpatients. We pride ourselves on being a friendly, inclusive and supportive team with genuine care for our patients and for each other. Staff wellbeing is at the heart of our culture, with access to Trust-wide wellbeing resources including a monthly team reflection session, staff support networks and wellbeing champions.

We recognise the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working opportunities alongside team socials and events throughout the year. We are highly committed to supporting CPD to enable us to strive to provide the highest quality care to our patients. Our mission is to make a positive difference in children's lives through the use of specialist, individualised and fun therapy in partnership with the MDT, the child and their family.

This aligns with The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Organisational Strategy  which sets out our vision for delivering excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient, every time. Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the largest and most specialised children's hospitals in the UK, providing world‑class care for children and young people across Yorkshire and beyond. As part of Leeds Teaching…