Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-B-267073
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/04/2026
Employer heading
Deputy Head of Nursing
Band 8b
Job overview
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated senior nurse to join our leadership team as Deputy Divisional Head of Nursing. This is a newly established post, created to enhance senior nursing leadership and capacity within Division B. You will work alongside the existing Deputy Head of Nursing, sharing responsibility for a wide portfolio of clinical areas and collaboratively leading key priorities across the Division.
You will provide strong, visible professional leadership, supporting the Divisional Head of Nursing to ensure safe, high-quality and compassionate care. Working as a key member of the Divisional Senior Leadership Team, you will drive improvements in clinical standards, patient experience, quality governance and workforce sustainability.
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced senior nurse ready to influence strategy, support transformation and positively shape the future of nursing within one of the country’s leading teaching hospitals.
This role will report directly to the Divisional Head of Nursing and have an individualised portfolio of clinical areas and staff, deputising for the Divisional Head of Nursing, whilst leading on delegated projects within the division and assisting with shaping the Divisional nursing direction and strategy.
Main duties of the job
• Provide professional and managerial leadership for designated nursing teams and specialist nurses, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the provision of high quality, responsive services with the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery.
• Work in partnership with the Divisional Senior Leadership Team to ensure effective and efficient management of delegated projects to meet agreed targets within the resources available.
• Work in partnership with the Divisional Senior Leadership Team to ensure effective divisional quality governance systems and processes.
• Maintain a visible presence where patients, staff and visitors can turn for assistance and upon whom they can rely to ensure that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met.
• Lead on delegated projects to promote and develop nursing and nursing practice within the Division.
• Deputise for and assist the Divisional Head of Nursing to provide professional leadership to all nurses within the division, monitor standards and ensure delivery of the N&M strategy.
• Maintain clinical credibility and skills there is a requirement that the post holder will participate in clinical Fridays. Some weekend working is required.
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 22nd March 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 9th 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 and relevant registration on NMC Register
- First degree.
- Masters degree (or working towards)
- Evidence of relevant continuous professional development
- Leadership development course
Desirable criteria
- Training in systems approach to investigation of patient safety incidents
- Training in quality improvement methodology
- Trained as After Action Review Conductor/Facilitator
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of substantial experience as a Matron/Senior Clinical Nurse, overseeing a number of clinical areas/services and demonstrating a depth and breadth of nursing knowledge
- Able to demonstrate collaborative working across professions and services
- Broad clinical experience in an acute hospital setting
- Experience of effectively leading or supporting service transformational change
- Experience of leading/supporting clinical quality improvement initiatives.
- Experience of delivering education and developing and implementing evidence based practice
- Experience of patient safety investigations using systems approach methodology.
- Experience of managing a clinical team including significant experience of staff management, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues
- Budget management experience, including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action
Desirable criteria
- After Action Review participation/ facilitation
- Lead Investigator for Serious Incident investigation
- Business case development writing
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & political awareness of current NHS issues
- In-depth knowledge of quality governance principles, systems, and processes
- In-depth knowledge of workforce planning principles, Trust workforce policies and recruitment and retention strategy
- Able to articulate the evolving vision for the future of nursing and to demonstrate opportunities this can bring to teams
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the trust.
- Highly developed communications skills, including liaison/negotiation skills and writing/presentation skills
- Able to demonstrate sound political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy, diverse interest groups and common sense in knowing ‘when to brief up the line’
- Able to advise and influence senior managers in relation to governance concerns
- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
- Computer literacy including competent in Word and excel
- Ability to prioritise work and meet tight deadlines and work independently
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.
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
- Marie Abbott
- Job title
- Divisional Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771727212
- Additional information
Joana Filipe
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