Job summary
- Main area
- General Medical
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-C-257209
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division C
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sister/ Charge Nurse - General Medical Ward
Band 6
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a permanent Sister/Charge nurse post has become available on Ward G3.
Ward G3 is a 27 bedded General Medical Ward. We are looking for a highly motivated enthusiastic registered nurse with a minimum of 18 months post-registration experience to support the band 7 Senior Sister in leading and supporting the teams on the ward.
We can offer you the opportunity to develop your management and leadership skills and also develop your knowledge and skills in caring for patients with a variety of general medical conditions. This post involves a full range of shifts, including nights and weekends and will require participation in the nurse bleep holder rota. This is a full-time position.
Main duties of the job
You will act as a role model for the Trust values, set a standard in providing exceptional patient care and assist the Senior Sister in delivering targets set for the ward.
Your role will involve taking charge of the unit, ensuring safe effective patient care is delivered and maintaining patient flow.
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 practice 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
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
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 2nd October 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 9 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 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 and relevant registration on NMC Register
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Practise Assessor and Supervisor Qualification (or willingness to work towards)
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification (e.g. Acute Care Course)
- Additional clinical qualification in specialist area
- Completion of, or working towards a leadership qualificatio
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of shift and ward management in absence of senior colleagues
- Experience of mentoring and teaching junior staff
- Experience in an acute care environment
- Experience of complex discharge planning issues
- Experience of MDT working
- Experience and awareness of patient flow and the impact of poor patient flow
Desirable criteria
- Experience of representing senior sister/charge nurse during their absence
- Previous experience of nurse led discharges
- Experience of leading the daily board meeting and providing appropriate challenge
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Sound theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical area
- Awareness of Trust and Ward/Department policies
- Awareness of need to demonstrate a professional appearance and behaviours
- An understanding of the professional nursing agenda
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing Human Resource issues i.e. poor performance, sickness, recruitment and retention
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and NHS
- Health and Safety awarenes
- Quality issues and Clinical Governance
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed communication skills
- Computer literacy
- Maintenance of confidentiality
- Identify problems and recommend solutions
- Effective team worker
- Awareness and respect for colleagues’, patients’ and relatives’ cultural and emotional needs
- Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using the EPIC system
- Ability to provide strong and compassionate leadership in order to affect change
- Practical skills teaching
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
- Flexible approach to working in line with service requirement
- Contact with patients in a clinical environment
- Food handling/preparation
- Food handling/preparation
- Shift work or night shifts
- Working with latex gloves
- Regular contact with infectious patients
- Working with Display screen equipment
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
- Mini John
- Job title
- Senior Charge Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 256535
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