Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-258006
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/03/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 26/04/2025
Employer heading
Paediatric Staff Nurse - Recruitment Day
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for Nurses, both Paediatric and Adult with Paediatric experience, who want to relocate to the beautiful city of Cambridge and work at one of the best NHS Foundation Teaching Trusts in the country. We welcome your applications and all shortlisted candidates will be invited to our event.
As a Nurse in Children’s Services at Addenbrookes, you will be joining a diverse and stimulating area. Our work is wide ranging and we are well respected both locally and as a regional specialist treatment centre. We provide excellent care across medical and surgical specialities and subspecialties. Our ethos of child centred care and multi-professional collaboration drives our service, alongside a commitment to family focused teamwork. We believe in supporting our patients, their families and our staff, and we offer a diverse range of dedicated paediatric psychosocial and clinical support services
Main duties of the job
To provide a high standard of safe individualised, holistic and evidence-based patient focused care in consultation with the patient, relatives and the multidisciplinary team.
Our areas include D2 (22 bed general medical/surgical ward 3-16 years), C3 (14 bed medical/surgical ward 0-3 years), F3 (day surgery and day procedure, Pre admission clinic and infusions), C2 / PDU (hematology/oncology and day unit), PICU, NICU, Charles Wolfson Ward (0-1 year), Clinic 6 (outpatients and specialist teams).
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.
You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health-care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.
Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?
• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 19th March 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 26th April 2025
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level registration RSCN/RN (child) (part 8 or 15) / Registered Nurse with Paediatric NMC PIN
- 2 Basic Level Child protection training
Desirable criteria
- Advanced level child protection training
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Relevant teaching and assessing course / mentorship course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience of working, without supervision, with children in an acute hospital setting, this can include student placements
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of experience in a high dependency or critical care areas
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of professional issues
- Evidence of up to date paediatric nursing skills and knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Current knowledge of research developments in paediatric nursing
Skills
Essential criteria
- Competent to care for children and their families in a safe an effective manner without direct supervision
- Effective team member
Desirable criteria
- Advocate of paediatric nursing
- Evidence of excellent team work
- Evidence of participation in research and audit projects
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of effective communication skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Lally
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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