Job summary
- Main area
- Emergency Medicine
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-C-267075
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Emergency Department
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/03/2026
Employer heading
Emergency Practitioner
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Emergency Practitioner to join our dynamic Emergency Department team. This role involves the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of patients presenting with a wide range of acute and urgent conditions.
Main duties of the job
You will work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities include clinical assessment, ordering and interpreting investigations, initiating treatment plans, performing clinical procedures within scope of practice, and ensuring safe and effective patient flow through the department.
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 15th March 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 24th March 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
- RN Adult or equivalent with current NMC registration/ Registered with HCPC
- Relevant degree level education
- Minor Injuries qualification
Desirable criteria
- Recognised teaching qualification
- Non-medical prescriber
- Advanced assessment qualification
- Minor illness qualification
- Working towards or completed masters pathway
- ENB A33 or equivalent Autonomous practice qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in acute Accident and Emergency care with experience working as a competent proficient fully autonomous emergency practitioner within a relevant environment such as emergency care setting or acute seting.
- Demonstrable teaching and mentoring experience
- Demonstrable evidence of participation in audit or research
- Proven experience of utilising expert diagnostic and cliinical skills to provide autonomous unscheduled medical care and management of patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of advanced clinical practice
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- A sound working knowledge of the national Emergency Care Targets and can provide leadership in working towards achieving them
- Specialist knowledge in clinical reasoning , history taking , physical examination , diagnostic skills and prescribing / treatment.
- Advanced knowledge and in depth understanding of anatomy and physiologyof ENT eye, skin, MSK and wound management.
- Good understanding of clinical governance framework and evidence of application.
- Understanding of infection prevention and control and evidence of application
- Knowledge of vulnerable adult and child safeguarding procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced knowledge and in depth understanding of anatomy and physiology of gastrointestinal, respiratory, cardiovasular, neurological systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced skills in clinical assessment
- Advanced clinical skills
- Excellent leadership and mentorship skills
- Highly effective educator
- An effective people manager with good organizational skills
- Good presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Good IT skills with ability to use electronic patient records.
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.
- Highly motivated and a willingness to develop the role of the Emergency Nurse / care Practitioner
- Flexible approach to working practices and ability to work rotational shifts including evenings and weekends
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
- Steve Ney
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223274333
- Additional information
Additional telephone number: 07933 174343
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