University Hospitals Southampton (UHS) Critical Care Units are renowned for our local and national contribution to Critical Care and for consistently delivering high standards of clinical care.  We are very proud of our developments and our service has expanded enabling us to actively recruit. 

 UHS is one of only two places in the south of England to offer adults and children full onsite major trauma care provision. UHS has a 25 bed General Intensive care that works very closely with the team on surgical high dependency as well as specialist neuro intensive care unit and cardiac intensive care unit. 

UHS is a designated major trauma centre and has general and specialist critical care areas which were awarded ‘outstanding’ for leadership in our recent CQC inspection in which the Trust overall rating was ‘Good’. 

The Surgical High Dependency Unit (SHDU) is a 10 bedded elective unit, caring for patients immediately post operatively after a variety of specialist surgery including Hepato-biliary pancreatic, colo-rectal, upper GI, vascular and more. SHDU pride themselves in providing exceptional standards of nursing and medical care. 

SHDU is currently seeking applications from Staff Nurses to join our motivated, friendly and supportive team. We are looking for nurses who would like to work in critical care and offer you a unique opportunity to work in SHDU to gain wide range of clinical expertise and professional growth for your career development.