Allied Health Professionals

Introduction to Allied Health Professionals

AHP group photo

Allied Health Professionals play an integral role in supporting our patients from admission, throughout their hospital stay and long after discharge. The high-quality care that patients receive, not only medically but therapeutically would not be possible without the excellent multidisciplinary approach that Allied Health Professionals provide at North Bristol NHS Trust. 

Roles include:

  • Radiographer
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Physiotherapist
  • Dietition
  • Speech and Language Therapist
  • Operating Department Practitioner
  • Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Support Worker

Our clinical teams provide outstanding patient care over a wide range of specialties in our five clinical divisions: 

  • Medicine Division– specialties include Cardiology, Respiratory, Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Complex Care, Elgar Enablement Unit, Complex Assessment Unit.
  • Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care and Renal Division – specialties include Intensive Care, Renal and Haemodialysis, Surgical Admission – Surgical Assessment Unit, Vascular, Burns and Plastics, General Surgery, Theatres and Medirooms.
  • Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Division– Stroke, Neurosurgery, Spines, Pain, Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, Neurology, Rheumatology, Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology, Bristol Centre for Enablement (including prosthetics and orthotics), Neuropathology, Bristol Speech and Language Therapy.
  • Women and Children’s Health Division – Neonatal Intensive Care and Gynaecology.
  • Core Clinical Services Division – Outpatients, Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Therapies.

What AHP specialties could I work in?

Our clinical teams provide outstanding patient care over a wide range of specialties in our five clinical divisions:

  • Medicine Division – specialties include Cardiology, Respiratory, Acute Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Gastroenterology, Haematology, Complex Care, Elgar Enablement Unit, Complex Assessment Unit.
  • Anaesthesia, Surgery, Critical Care and Renal Division – specialties include Intensive Care, Renal and Haemodialysis, Surgical Admission – Surgical Assessment Unit, Vascular, Burns and Plastics, General Surgery, Theatres and Medirooms.
  • Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Division – Stroke, Neurosurgery, Spines, Pain, Elective Orthopaedics, Trauma, Neurology, Rheumatology, Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology, Bristol Centre for Enablement (including prosthetics and orthotics), Neuropathology, Bristol Speech and Language Therapy.
  • Women and Children’s Health Division – Neonatal Intensive Care and Gynaecology
  • Core Clinical Services Division – Outpatients, Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Therapies. 

Allied Health Professionals opportunities

NBT cares

Occupational Therapy

AHP team grouped together

Physiotherapy

Hand Physio with patient

Speech and Language Therapy

Speech & Language Therapy professionals

Operating Department Practitioner

Theatre Team in action

Radiographers

Radiographer with Equipment

Dietitians

Dietician with equipment

AHP Video - Interventional Radiology at North Bristol NHS Trust

Current Allied Vacancies