PCCU Clinical Practice Educator

Main area Paediatric Critical Care Grade NHS AfC:
Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

Site John Radcliffe Hospital Town Oxford Salary £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2026 23:59

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital
, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this
Delivering Compassionate Excellence
and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use
Value Based Interviewing
to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Deputy Sister/Charge Nurse to join our Paediatric Critical Care team and be an integral part of the PCCU Education and PCCU Clinical team.

Post holders will be expected to work a minimum of 23hrs per week across days, nights and weekend shifts.

The post-holder will be an experienced, knowledgeable practitioner in Paediatric Critical Care providing clinically based practice development and education. They will role model best, evidence-based professional practice. Clinical education will form approximately 50% of the role, engaging in education activities and working flexibly to maximise education delivery to support staff and patient safety/experience e.g.:

• Working alongside learners at all stages of development to facilitate learning
• Identifying and supporting learning needs within PCC
• Developing and updating training resources
• Contributing to the delivery of education programmes within the Paediatric Critical Care unit and across the Directorate.

The role holder will spend the remainder their time in clinical practice working within the B6 clinical workforce to:

• Provide clinical leadership ensuring a high standard of individualised nursing and family centred care is delivered to critically ill children.
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, communicating effectively with all levels of medical and nursing staff.
• Uphold PCCU’s Nursing Philosophy of Care.
• Effectively manage PCCU on a day-to-day basis, in the absence of a Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.

Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) at OUH includes 17 co-located Level 2 and 3 critical care beds, delivering a wide range of specialist services to patients from Oxfordshire and the wider Thames Valley and Wessex Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network (TVW PCC ODN). We are a leading Neurosurgical and Major Trauma Centre and have a vast number of medical and surgical specialities.

SORT Retrieval Service OUH PCC Services include the SORT (Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team) service, delivered in collaboration with Southampton across TVW PCC ODN. It is staffed by doctors, ACPs and nurses from both Oxford and Southampton, with Oxford providing a retrieval team 24/7.

Critical Care Outreach Service is a team of experienced nurses who support all healthcare professionals in the assessment and management of unwell children across the children’s hospital, emergency department, and neonatal unit, following up and supporting children and families following discharge.

Education, Development…