Southampton Children’s Hospital is a major centre for specialist paediatric services and is part of one of the largest teaching trusts in the country. We are now looking for a compassionate, experienced and motivated Education Lead for our Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at UHS. PICU is a large and dynamic, award-winning critical care unit and provides respiratory and cardiac ECMO and runs a paediatric critical care retrieval service. It is central to the provision of tertiary specialist children’s care at Southampton Children’s Hospital which is a paediatric major trauma centre and delivers a complete range of paediatric specialist services including oncology, cardiology and cardiac surgery, neurology and neurosurgery, nephrology and respiratory medicine.

You will be responsible in leading education for a 15 bedded Level 3 tertiary team. The unit covers Thames Valley & Wessex Region that accepts children from 0-16 years requiring intensive care for single through to multi system failure.

Importantly, you will live and breathe our values, working with your immediate teams and wider leaders within the organisation to promote, engage and support staff development and education building clinical expertise and innovation. You will inspire, develop and support every one of us to live our values; Patients First, Always Improving, Working Together.