Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 21.75 hours per week (Includes nights weekends and Bank holidays. Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered.)
- Job ref
- 180-C-267100
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Sister/ Charge Nurse - EAU5 Medical Short Stay Unit
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Sister/Charge Nurse to join our senior nursing team on EAU5.
EAU5 consists of 26 beds, including 9 cardiac monitored beds, and 2 additional rapid handover spaces to support ambulance offloads from the ED.
EAU5 is also the admission point for medical patients experiencing a mental health crisis.
We are looking for the right person who will continue to uphold the ethos of the unit, whilst ensuring continued development of both staff and the service. You must be a motivated, positive, and dynamic individual with proven leadership experience, or keen to take your first step into a leadership role. You must be able to inspire staff and ensure the provision of safe, personal and effective care, whilst maintaining flow through the unit.
You will be expected to maintain high standards of care, meeting national and local standards with regards to quality, safety and length of stay within the unit.
The post is for 21.75 hours per week (0.58FTE)
Main duties of the job
You would be responsible for the day to day running of the ward with regards to quality, flow and staffing, including roster management
You will be expected to work shifts over a 24/7 period to ensure sufficient senior nurse cover on the unit, and hold the divisional staffing bleep, which includes the cardiac arrest bleep.
To lead and co-ordinate a multidisciplinary team to ensure an optimum level of safe and effective patient care within budgetary resources. To assess care needs, to develop, to implement and evaluate programmes of care.
You will support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse for all aspects of staff management and recruitment, including sickness and performance management, clinical governance and risk management, and deputise in their absence.
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 14 April 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
Essential criteria
- Current registration with the NMC as an adult nurse
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Practice assessor and supervisor
- Qualification in acute care management
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a leadership program
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration experience within an acute clinical area
- Acute medical nursing experience
- Post registration experience within an acute clinical area
Desirable criteria
- Experience as team leader
- NHS experience
- Experience in team development and management eg. appraisals
- Previous experience in an acute assessment unit or emergency department.
- Previous experience of bleep holding
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of mentorship and teaching
Desirable criteria
- Advanced assessment skills
- Experience in reading cardiac monitoring , ABG’s, VBG’s ECG’s
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills
- Management and teaching skills
- Effective team working skills
Desirable criteria
- Interpretation of ABG’s and ECG’s
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.
- Be able to work a variety of shift patterns including night shifts
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
- Anne Tang
- Job title
- Sister/Charge Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 348336
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