Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 8A
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-267083
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 p.a pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Divisional Education Lead - Paediatrics
Band 8A
Job overview
Join us as the Divisional Education Lead for Children’s Services at Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH).
We’re looking for an inspiring and forward thinking education leader to drive high quality non medical education across Children’s Services. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the learning culture for our registered and unregistered workforce, ensuring excellent support for students, apprentices, and staff across Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie Hospitals.
We’re seeking a compassionate and credible leader with strong educational expertise, experience in children’s acute care, and a commitment to advancing professional development across the division.
If you’re passionate about shaping the future of the children’s workforce and driving educational excellence, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this pivotal role, you will:
• Provide strategic leadership for the Children’s Services Education Team
• Champion high quality learning environments and lead on key education initiatives
• Collaborate across CUH, HEI partners and system stakeholders to influence workforce development
• Support the delivery of innovative education programmes aligned to Trust priorities and national policy
• Role model clinical excellence while promoting a culture of continuous improvement
• Lead funded learning processes and oversee the development needs of the non medical workforce
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 18th Mar 26
Interviews are due to be held on 27th Apr 26
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
- Master’s degree or expected completion in next 12 months
- Evidence of current relevant continuous professional development
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy or working towards
Desirable criteria
- Leadership and management qualification.
- Professional Nurse Advocate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a senior educator or equivalent in Higher Education, responsible for leading teaching activities and requiring high level of knowledge of educational pedagogy.
- Significant evidence of leading and managing teams with compassionate leadership skills
- Evidence of ability to lead and support change
- Experience of supporting education quality improvement activities in response to learner feedback
- Experience of developing education modules including delivery and evaluation of learner experience
- Senior clinical experience in children’s services in an acute hospital setting
- 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
- Awareness of budgetary management principles.
- Demonstrates a high-level understanding of the significance of productivity and efficiency.
- Good evidence of partnership working and stakeholder engagement
- Experience collaborating with Higher Education Institution (HEI) partners in the design, delivery, and assessment of academic programmes.
- Awareness of digital initiatives that leverage advanced and innovative technologies to enhance quality, productivity, and efficiency to practice learning and non-medical education as a whole
Desirable criteria
- Experience of developing policies and procedures
- Audit or research experience
- Budgetary management
- Curriculum design and implementation
- NHS Experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current developments in nursing & political awareness of current NHS issues
- Sound knowledge of quality governance principles, systems, and processes
- In-depth knowledge of workforce planning principles, Trust workforce policies and recruitment and retention strategy
- Demonstrates a sound awareness of cultural and learning diversity to completion
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams across the trust.
- Excellent communication skills including liaison/negotiation skills and writing presentation skills
- Political awareness when dealing with complex issues, diverse interest groups and common sense in knowing ‘when to brief up the line’
- Able to have challenging conversations where necessary
- Ability to collaboratively develop 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
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders at both regional and national levels to enhance the profile of CUH.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and teaching skills.
- Ability to make sound decisions in high-pressure environments.
- Able to prepare reports and action plans, in both written and verbal formats, for the purpose of communication and information sharing.
- Demonstrates a high-level awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion at work
Desirable criteria
- Project management and leadership
- Coaching qualification/experience
- Use of simulated learning to foster the development of new knowledge, skills and behaviours.
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
- Tara Llewellyn
- Job title
- Divisional Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
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