Dr Simon Robinson has been a Paediatric Intensive Care Consultant at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust since 2013. He previously worked within paediatrics across the midlands, including specialist paediatric intensive care training at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. He also spent a year as a Senior Clinical Fellow at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, Canada.

Based at Leicester Children’s Hospital, Simon works in a large team to deliver high-quality services to children of all ages. He provides both general and cardiac intensive care for children with acute deteriorations or immediately post-elective surgery. He is also supports the delivery of the paediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) programme in the largest ECMO centre in Europe.

In addition to his clinical responsibility, Simon is the Head of Service for paediatric specialties and Leicester University Hospitals Paediatric Organ Donation Lead. Since September 2015 he has been Leicester Children’s Hospital’s Quality, Safety and Governance Lead, which involves aligning quality improvement initiatives, and developing and maintaining governance structures.

Simon’s ambition is to fundamentally evolve the local culture to one of ‘fair accountability with proactive mitigation of risk’. GenerationQ has helped him ‘to become a more effective leader through greater diversity of techniques, a wider network of resource, further developed flexibility and greater knowledge’. He is hoping that through the Q community, he can explore further learning and networking opportunities as well as sharing his experience.

‘My organisation is benefiting from structural development with a network of reliable quality improvement and governance processes that do not reinvent the wheel, but revolutionise available information for the trust by being relevant, real-time and appropriately challenging to drive on-going improvement.’

Simon also co-leads the regional adoption and spread of ‘Safety Huddles’ to build situational awareness across clinical environments. Utilising a complexity model framework he has successfully supported the removal of obstacles through flattening hierarchy, building local ownership, co-design/co-production and encouraging flexible, adaptive and responsive solutions.