This vacancy is only open to applicants from University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

We are now looking to appoint our new Director of Education and Workforce, due to the retirement of  our much appreciated and highly valued colleague, Dr Jo Mountfield. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced consultant colleague to provide over-arching educational and workforce leadership to the organisation, aligned to our UHS People Strategy.

Reporting to Steve Harris, our Chief People Officer, you will lead the performance and direction of operational workforce deployment services for all staff groups; you will maximise all educational learning opportunities across the Trust for all staff and students, ensuring multiprofessional collaboration to develop new initiatives and education programmes.

You will bring your well-honed skills of influence and diplomacy to build and nurture effective relationships across our Trust and with the wider local and national health and social care landscape.  With your excellent communication skills, your focus will be on collaboration and compassionate leadership; you will work across UHS, and beyond, to ensure our workforce and our services are meeting the demands of our patients and system stakeholders.

You will live and demonstrate behaviours that meet our Trust Values: Patients First, Always Improving, Working Together. You will inspire, develop and support every one of us to live these values -  every patient, every colleague, every day.

To apply, please complete the following sections:

• Personal details
• Supporting statement (A few paragraphs on your skills and experience and how you would plan to deliver the key objectives of the role)