She has been a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for South Belfast since the 2016 election and in 2024 was appointed Alliance Party Chief Whip.

[3] She subsequently completed a degree in European Business at Ulster University at Coleraine, before returning to study law and government part-time at the Jordanstown campus.

[3] Bradshaw contested the 2010 general election for the Ulster Conservatives and Unionists and was defeated by the SDLP's Alasdair McDonnell.

She currently serves as the Alliance Party's health spokesperson and, in 2020, was appointed Assembly Private Secretary at the Department of Justice to support Minister Naomi Long.

In a 2017 Belfast Telegraph article about women in the public eye, Bradshaw spoke about her first marriage "I got married to Martin (43) when I was 26 and we were together for seven years.