Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-267178
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Development Nurse – General Paediatrics
Band 7
Job overview
Join a dynamic and forward-thinking Clinical Education Team at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, part of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals renowned for innovation, excellence, and world-class paediatric care.
Are you an experienced paediatric nurse who is passionate about developing others, driving service improvement, and inspiring excellence in clinical practice? This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future workforce within a diverse and stimulating children’s service that delivers exceptional specialist care to children, young people, and their families across the East of England. You will play a pivotal role in educating, coaching, and supporting staff across our paediatric services, helping to create an empowering and supportive learning environment where teams can thrive and patients receive outstanding care.
As a tertiary paediatric centre, Addenbrooke’s provides exposure to a wide range of specialist and sub-specialist services across both medical and surgical paediatrics, including trauma and regional neurosurgical care. As a Level 1 Trauma Centre, no two days are the same — offering exciting opportunities to work alongside expert multidisciplinary teams in a fast-paced and rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
Our culture is built around child-centred care, family-focused teamwork, innovation, and multi-professional collaboration. We are proud of our reputation locally and regionally, and we are committed to supporting our staff to develop, lead, and make a real difference.
If you are an inspiring paediatric nurse with excellent communication, coaching, and leadership skills, and you are ready to influence practice, support learners, and help shape paediatric services of the future, we would love to hear from you.
If you believe that you can meet the demands of a challenging, skilful and ultimately rewarding job, please apply or call for an informal chat.
Main duties of the role
Promotes good clinical practice within children’s services focusing on the education and development needs of the staff within children’s services.
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
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 21 June 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 29 June 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
- RN (Child) educated to Degree level or equivalent.
- Teaching and assessing qualification or PgCert.
- Post registration qualification in speciality.
- Evidence of continuous professional development.
- Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced clinical assessment
- Post registration study relevant to post / enrolled in Masters programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills.
- Accept personal accountability for own practice.
- Experience of formal/informal teaching.
- Experience of initiating change.
- Experience in leading a team or in routinely coordinating a shift on a children’s ward.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working on both a medical and a surgical ward
- Experience in managing a change in clinical practice
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of evidence-based practice.
- Understanding of Clinical Governance.
- Understanding of patient pathway, its complexities and how to support the patient through this.
- Good understanding of Safeguarding issues.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of chronic disease management
- Knowledge of community support networks available to children, parents and families
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to deliver expert nursing care to children and families.
- Ability to work effectively in a team.
- Ability to deliver education and training programmes..
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Capable of working as an integral member of a small team.
- Adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues’ needs.
- Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
- Leadership skills.
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to lead developments in practice.
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
- Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills.
- Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates ability to work across organisational boundaries
- Ability to develop protocols and guidelines for practice
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.
- To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct.
- Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions.
- Able to travel as required for the role.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty – political and Trust.
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]
- Telephone number
- 01223 217869
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