Staff Nurse

Cambridge University Hospitals; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Remoto; GBP 32.000 - 39.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Band 5 nurse to join the Transplant Enhanced Care Unit (TECU). The role requires current NMC registration, transplant/ITU experience, and strong communication and teamwork abilities. You will work in a fast-paced, highly specialised environment caring for post-transplant patients.

Benefits include flexible working options and a supportive learning culture with development opportunities within CUH.

Competenze

• Current registration with NMC and up-to-date practice.
• Transplant and ITU/enhanced care experience preferred.
• Mentoring and teaching junior staff is beneficial.

Mansioni

• Demonstrate effective verbal and written communication with the healthcare team, patients and relatives.
• Achieve competency in Trust computer systems and documentation standards.
• Plan, organise and prioritise workload while maintaining confidentiality.
• Support change and collaborate within a multidisciplinary team.

Conoscenze

Communication skills

Time management

Teamwork

Adaptability

Mentoring

Formazione

NMC registration

Supervisor/Assessor training

Acute care modules

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Main area F5 Transplant Enhanced Care Unit - Division C Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours 37.5 hours per week (Full Time/Part Time/ Flexible working hours may be considered) Job ref 180-C-258050

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hopsital - Division C Town Cambridge Salary £32,073 - £39,043 p.a pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 16/10/2026

Job overview

F5 Transplant Enhanced Care Unit (TECU) consists of 5 beds for level 2 patients following a transplant surgery. F5TECU forms part of one of the UKs most comprehensive adult solid organ transplant programmes. F5TECU is the only centre in the UK specifically caring for transplant patients requiring level 2 support.

The unit supports patients who require close monitoring and specialist care before, during and after transplantation. The organs transplanted at CUH include kidney, simultaneous pancreas kidney transplant combined, Liver and multiple abdominal organ transplant. We are 1 of only 2 centres in the UK that offers this highly specified transplant.

F5TECU nurses are highly competent in caring for transplant patients requiring strong clinical knowledge, excellent communication and the ability to work effectively in a fast paced, highly specialised environment whilst maintaining compassionate and holistic care.

Main duties of the job

• Ability to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, patients and relatives
• Ability to achieve competency in Trust computer systems
• Practical application of Trust documentation standards
• Ability to take initiative when required and liaise with the appropriate manager/bleep holder
• Understanding and maintenance of confidentiality
• Ability to identity problems and recommend solutions
• Ability to demonstrate effective time management
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
• Awareness and respect for the cultural and emotional needs of colleagues, patients and relatives
• Ability to adapt to meet changing workloads and to work under pressure
• Ability to work well within a team
• Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) 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 CUH?

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy is for Registered Nurses with full NMC registration. If you are an internationally trained nurse that has not passed their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), you will not be considered for this role and will be automatically rejected, so please do not apply.

All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 2026 will be subject to a 12-week probationary period. This provides a structured and supportive period to help you settle into your role, with regular reviews and feedback.

As there is a 12-week probationary period, successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver.

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.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 11 OCT 2026

Interviews will be held on the 16 OCT 2026

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 café, 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
• Supervisor and assessor training completion
• Alert / WACS or equivalent
• Acute care module completed or equivalent
• Other post-basic, health-related professional development and its application
• Enhanced care competencies completed
• ITU Care Certificates

Experience

• Proven clinical practice in an acute hospital
• Experience in both surgical and medical clinical areas.
• Experience of utilising reflective practice
• Transplant experience of at least 2 years – competency based
• ITU/enhanced care/emergency care experience
• Experience of mentoring and teaching junior staff
• Experience of shift: shift ward management in absence of senior colleagues
• Experience of clinical supervision
• NHS Experience

Knowledge

• Understanding of NMC Code of Conduct and guidelines of professional practice
• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical area
• Health and Safety awareness
• Understanding and knowledge of Clinical Governance
• Awareness of Trust and Ward/Department polices
• Professional awareness reflected in attitude and appearance
• Understanding and maintenance of confidentiality
• Understanding of transplant and protocols
• Understanding of transplant and protocols
• An understanding of the professional nursing agenda
• Awareness of broader issues within The Trust and NHS

Skills

• Ability to demonstrate effective verbal and written communication skills with all members of the healthcare team, colleagues, patients and relatives
• Demonstrate competency with Intravenous medication administration via peripheral and central routes
• Practical application of Trust documentation standards
• Ability to identity problems and recommend solutions
• Ability to demonstrate effective time management
• Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
• Ability to adapt to meet changing workloads and to work under pressure
• Ability to work well within a team
• Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops
• Competency with administration of parenteral nutrition
• Competency and skill to unblock central venous access lines
• Competent with different oxygen therapies i.e.. High flow/cpap- Hamiliton
• Competent with different oxygen therapies i.e.. High flow/cpap- Hamiliton
• ABG interpretation
• Complex pain management
• Blood transfusion competent B1/B3
• Ability to orientate new staff to clinical area.
• Ability to identify the key learning needs of students
• Practical skills teaching
• Previous experience in caring for post operative transplant patients
• Ability to manage complex wounds
• Knowledge and experience with complex discharges
• Knowledge of surgical pain management
• Communicating skills around difficult conversations
• Communicating skills around difficult conversations
• High ANTT for different lines ie. CVC/PICC
• Completion of the ICU respiratory study days

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.