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Overview

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Position

Sister/Charge Nurse - Ward K2

The closing date is 09 October 2025

Introduction

We are looking for a Band 6 nurse to join our small and friendly team on Ward K2. If you are motivated, like to work collaboratively and confident that you meet the professional requirements for this role, please apply. Ideally you will be a cardiac nurse with experience in cardiac catheter lab. The role requires that you work in a small MDT within a day unit with no weekend working or unsocial hours. You will be assisting the Senior Sister to lead and manage the responsibilities within the Unit and also cover the Division D bleep holder role per rota. Please contact K2 Senior Sister Lynne Marshall for informal visits. We look forward to seeing you.

Main duties of the job

To assist the Ward Manager in the overall running of the ward and the co-ordination of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure a safe, individualized, holistic and evidence-based patient-focused care.

About us

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?

o Our values and reputation for outstanding care
o Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
o Career and development opportunities
o Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
o Research experience and opportunities
o Lovely location and quality of life
o Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Job 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
- you have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- 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

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 9 October 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 21 October 2025

Benefits

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced-cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only cafe, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Current registration with NMC on part one or two of the register
- Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
- Teaching Assessing Qualification
- Experience / course in clinical specialty or relevant field e.g. ENB 249, 998, N05

Experience

- Experience of shift: shift ward management in absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of mentoring junior staff
- Experience of teaching junior staff
- Post registration experience in a relevant field
- Experience as a Divisional Bleep holder
- Experience as Cardiac Nurse
- Experience of delegated ward manager responsibility during the absence of manager
- Experience of clinical supervision/action learning/reflective practice

Knowledge

- NMC Code of Conduct and guidelines of professional practice
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical area
- Health and Safety Awareness
- Quality issues and Clinical Governance
- Awareness of Trust and Ward / Department policies
- Awareness of need to demonstrate a professional appearance and behaviour
- An understanding of the professional nursing agenda
- Awareness of Cardiac Disease, Diagnostics and intervention for pts
- Experience of managing Human Resource issues, i.e. poor performance, recruitment and retention
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and NHS

Skills

- Proven verbal and written communication skills with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, patients and relatives
- Practical application of Trust documentation standards
- Self-motivated
- Ability to provide leadership in order to influence
- Ability to provide leadership in order to affect change
- Scope of practice skills

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Flexible approach to working in line with service requirements
- Evidence of positive feedback from colleagues, line manager and patients

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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