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PaNDR Sister/Charge Nurse - Neonatal Transport

The closing date is 12 October 2025

Are you an experienced NICU nurse who enjoys a challenge? Do you enjoy being able to care for the full range of neonatal infants, from complex intensive care through to special care, often in the same shift? Can you demonstrate exceptional communication skills which impact positively on colleagues and families?

If you are keen to develop your skills in transport medicine and work in a busy and challenging environment transferring neonates within the East of England and beyond then this is the job for you. PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England.

Whilst the neonatal and paediatric teams are two independent teams they work supportively and collaboratively together. Providing expert critical care to neonates and children up to the age of 16 years with a variety of medical and surgical conditions both at their referring hospital and in the ambulance en-route to PICU/NICU.

The neonatal transport team supports 17 NICU's in the East of England. The region has 3 tertiary centres at The Rosie, The Norfolk & Norwich Hospital and The Luton & Dunstable Hospital. We welcome requests for rotational or shared posts.

Main duties of the job

If you would like to be part of this friendly, progressive, innovative team providing excellent family centred care to critically ill neonates in the East of England and would like more information please contact:

Lorraine Highe, Matron for PaNDR: lorraine.highe1@nhs.net

Liz Lock, Practice Development for PaNDR: elizabeth.lock8@nhs.net

Or come and meet the team at our open day, to register your interest please contact cuh.divisionerecruitment@nhs.net

Main Duties

The post holder will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer. Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and babies according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours.

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 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 12 October 2025

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 27 October 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

- Safeguarding level 3
- Enhanced Nursing Skills Qualification (ENP)
- Degree in relevant health related subject

Experience

- Tertiary level neonatal nursing or equivalent experience
- Shift leader experience
- Transferring infants between departments internally
- Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality
- Experience of surgical neonatal nursing
- Transferring infants externally

Knowledge

- Awareness of professional issues
- Knowledge of team working dynamics
- Knowledge of neonatal transport developments and strategic National agenda

Skills

- Organised
- Ability to be calm under pressure
- Effective team member
- Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
- Basic IT skills
- Budgetary skills

Additonal Requirements

- 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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