Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-267002
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Sister/ Charge Nurse - PANDR (Paediatric Transport)
Band 6
Job overview
Are you a passionate Paediatric Critical Care Nurse ready for your next challenge?
We’re excited to invite experienced nurses to join our Paediatric Transport Service at Band 6—a unique and highly rewarding career opportunity.
PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the dedicated neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England. Our neonatal and paediatric teams work within their specialist areas while collaborating closely to deliver seamless, high-quality critical care. Together, we provide expert stabilisation and retrieval for neonates and children up to 16 years of age, supporting them both at referring hospitals and during ambulance transfers to specialist care centres.
This role offers an exceptional opportunity to expand your advanced critical care skills, working within a small, highly skilled team to stabilise and transport some of the sickest children and young people in the region. You’ll also play an active role in outreach education, developing and delivering learning alongside the MDT to healthcare teams across the East of England.
We provide a comprehensive induction programme, including transport-specific competencies and specialist equipment training. Ongoing professional development is embedded into our culture, with daily teaching sessions and regular simulation training to keep your skills sharp and current. You’ll rotate across three teams, delivering a 24/7 service, 365 days a year.
Main duties of the job
If you’re looking to be part of a friendly, forward-thinking, and innovative team committed to delivering family-centred care to critically ill children, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer. Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and children according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours.
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 18 January 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 26 January 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
- First Level Registration
- Paediatric Critical Care qualification
- Teaching / mentorship qualification
- Paediatric Life Support Course
- Safeguarding level 3
Desirable criteria
- Enhanced Nursing Skills
- Degree in relevant health related subject
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- PICU nursing experience
- Shift leader experience
- Transferring children between departments internally
- Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality
Desirable criteria
- Experience of surgical paediatric nursing
- Transferring children externally
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of professional issues
- Knowledge of team working dynamics
- Emotional intelligence
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of paediatric transport developments and strategic national agenda
Skills
Essential criteria
- Organised
- Ability to be calm under pressure
- Effective team member
- Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
- Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Budgetary skills
- Intermediate IT skills
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
- Lorraine Highe
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information, please contact:
Lorraine Highe (Matron): [email protected]
Elizabeth Lock (PD Lead): [email protected]
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