Safety and Quality Nurse

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Safety and Quality Nurse

The closing date is 23 October 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Registered Nurse to undertake the role of Safety & Quality Nurse within the Gynaecology division located within the Rosie Hospital.

You will provide expert leadership in relation to safety and quality matters by supporting and implementing safe, evidence-based practice across the Gynaecology service, collaborating with the multi-disciplinary teams.

You will contribute to the patient safety and governance agenda, including the rapid review of cases for sub-specialties. The post holder will provide specialist advice, teaching and support to staff, and the sharing of good practice and shared learning relating to Datix incidents and audits.

You will be required to maintain clinical credibility and visibility as part of an integral Gynaecology leadership team.

This is a Monday to Friday role - 30 hours a week.

If you think this is the opportunity for you, please do not hesitate to apply.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Registered Nurse the post holder will work with the Matron for Fertility & Gynaecology Services, Lead Midwife for Safety & Quality and the wider Gynaecology Leadership team in the delivery of the corporate agenda for Clinical Governance within the service via the Trust Clinical Risk Management Strategy.

To provide expert leadership in relation to safety and quality matters by supporting and implementing safe, evidence- based practice across the Gynaecology service, collaborating with the multi-disciplinary teams.

Contribute to the patient safety and governance agenda, including the rapid review of cases for sub-specialties. The post holder will provide specialist advice, teaching and support to staff, and the sharing of good practice and shared learning relating to Datix incidents and audits.

The post holder will be required to maintain clinical credibility and visibility as part of an integral Gynaecology leadership team.

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 careo Opportunities to experience a range of specialitieso Career and development opportunitieso Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support teamo Research experience and opportunitieso Lovely location and quality of lifeo 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- 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

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 23 October 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 3 November 2025

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 caf, 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

- Registered Nurse

- Teaching and assessing qualification

- Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning

- Degree in Nursing or equivalent.

- ILS Course

- Evidence of studying at Masters level

- Patient safety qualification

- Health and safety qualification

Experience

- Ability to demonstrate an expert working knowledge of nursing in all areas of the Gynaecology service

- Previous experience in Risk Management

- Evidence of relevant clinical updating

- Evidence of leadership

- Experience of academic report writing / ability to interpret evidence

- Experience in a tertiary service.

- Evidence of use of professional networking beyond organisational level.

- Experience of managing change and processes

- Working knowledge of patient safety and governance

- Evidence of effective MDT working

- Involvement with clinical audit, research and quality improvement

- Use of computerised information system

- Participation and contribution to local Regional/National forums

- Experience in clinical effectiveness

- Awareness of contemporary NHS policy and reforms in health and social care i.e. Womens' Health Strategy.

- Experience in engaging with service users and interpreting feedback into service improvements

Knowledge

- Aware of current research and its impact on evidence based care.

- Conversant with NMC rules governing practice

- Demonstrate awareness and working knowledge of clinical governance

- Awareness of health and safety issues

- Knowledge of current reports/guidelines relating to Nursing Care and their implication

- Knowledge of CQC core service framework in relation to Gynaecology services

Skills

- Ability to demonstrate expert knowledge by being visible, accessible and using clinical skills within the workplace

- Well developed interpersonal and counselling skills

- Excellent report writing and presentation skills

- Ability in cannulation and I.V. drug additives

- Able to demonstrate contribution to changing practice

- Demonstrate effective clinical leadership ability and role modelling

- Implementation of evidence based practice

- To work well under pressure and prioritise accordingly.

- To effectively manage complex operational situations.

- To work flexibly within a multi-disciplinary team.

- IT literate with legible handwriting

- Working in a busy clinical environment when required including participating care in termination of pregnancies

- Experience of initiating quality improvement programmes/ managing change

- Experience of training staff/ presenting

Additional Requirements

- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team

- Ability to travel between the Trust and the community services, as required

- Support and develop nursing-led care

- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.

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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