Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 22.5 hours per week (Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered)
- Job ref
- 180-E-257280
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Cleft Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 7
Job overview
Within children’s services at Cambridge University Hospitals we are dedicated to providing specialist, professional care to our patients and their families in a welcoming and committed atmosphere. Our work is wide ranging and we are respected both locally and as a regional specialist treatment centre.
CUH provides excellent care across both medical and surgical specialities. Our ethos of child centred care and multi-professional collaboration drives our service, alongside a commitment to family focused teamwork.
We are seeking to recruit a clinical nurse specialist to join CleftNet.East- the regional Cleft Centre. The role will provide opportunities to work within a range of environments including but not limited to family homes, postnatal wards, neonatal units, children’s wards and outpatient clinics across our region.
We are a truly collaborative team, working with various members of the MDT both within Cleft and maternity and children’s services. Your role will include engaging and networking with cleft professionals nationally and participating in audit and research at a local and national level. Having a strong desire to improve patient experience and patient reported outcomes is essential.
Main duties of the job
The Cleft care Pathway starts during the antenatal period for some of our families right up to adult hood, so every day as a cleft nurse specialist can be varied but also, challenging and rewarding. The nursing team provides both a proactive service and reactive service, ensuring that the national service specification indicators are met. In order to do this, a 7 day a week service is provided, with the weekends being shared via on-call rota between the nurse specialists.
We are looking for an experienced, approachable and autonomous practitioner to join our team and would ensure a tailored training programme is supported on commencement of the post.
Main Duties
As a clinical nurse specialist in the service, you will be expected to demonstrate excellent communication and organisational skills as well as proven ability to lead and influence change. You will be motivated to make a positive difference to the child and family experience, maximising effective patient pathways and flow.
Working alongside the multidisciplinary teams at CUH and within our regional hospitals, you will be responsible for coordinating a comprehensive, integrated service. You will provide specialist clinical skills and will liaise with all relevant professional groups and agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to Infants, children and young people born with a cleft, providing guidance, support and advice including attendance at safeguarding and social care meetings.
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
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 30 November 2025
Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 8 December 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
- RSCN/RN Child
- First Degree (or equivalent level) in nursing or health-related subject
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
- Evidence of on-going CPD
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate Diploma/ Degree/Masters
- QIS Neonates or Paediatric Intensive Care
- Attended recent Unicef BFI training
- Counselling qualification
- SCPHN
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with acute and chronically ill children/ young people
- Evidence of having worked collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrate a commitment to teaching colleagues/ students and to mentorship
- Community experience
- Safeguarding experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in caring for children, & their families affected by Cleft.
- NICU/PICU/ENT/Respiratory experience
- Evidence of publications in nursing journals
- Experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of the : - Children Act - National Service Framework - Every Child Matters - Working together to Safeguard Children - NHS Plan
Desirable criteria
- Experience in developing care pathways and patient information.
- Understanding of MDT working
- Experience of Service improvement
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Skills of diplomacy and negotiation
- Well-developed organisational and planning ability, able to prioritise and delegate
- Maintain a flexible attitude to change
- Demonstrate an ability to work as part of a team and build good relationships
- Computer literate
- Ability to manage performance of staff, change management and conflict
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing conflict
- Competent in use of databases, spread sheets and PowerPoint
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all time towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust vales of safe, kind and excellent
- Ability to collaborate with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation and external agencies
- Committed to providing a high standard of clinical care
- Able to motivate others
- To work flexibly as the role demands
- Able to travel as required for the role
- Current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Autonomous Practitioner
- Experience of audit and research
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
- Louise Harris
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist Cleft
- Email address
- [email protected]
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