Job summary
- Main area
- Paedatrics
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-257062
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/04/2025
Employer heading
PaNDR Sister/Charge Nurse - Neonatal Transport
Band 6
Job overview
Are you an experienced NICU nurse who enjoys a challenge? Do you enjoy being able to care for the full range of neonatal infants, from complex intensive care through to special care, often in the same shift? Can you demonstrate exceptional communication skills which impact positively on colleagues and families?
If you are keen to develop your skills in transport medicine and work in a busy and challenging environment transferring neonates within the East of England and beyond then this is the job for you. PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England.
Whilst the neonatal and paediatric teams are two independent teams they work supportively and collaboratively together. Providing expert critical care to neonates and children up to the age of 16 years with a variety of medical and surgical conditions both at their referring hospital and in the ambulance en-route to PICU/NICU.
The neonatal transport team supports 17 NICU’s in the East of England. The region has 3 tertiary centres at The Rosie, The Norfolk & Norwich Hospital and The Luton & Dunstable Hospital. We welcome requests for rotational or shared posts.
Main duties of the job
If you would like to be part of this friendly, progressive, innovative team providing excellent family centred care to critically ill neonates in the East of England and would like more information please contact:
Lorraine Highe, Matron for PaNDR: [email protected]
Liz Lock, Practice Development for PaNDR: [email protected]
Or come and meet the team at our open day, to register your interest please contact [email protected]
Main Duties
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 babies 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 date of employment
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
A welcome subsidy of £1000 is available to all Band 5 and Band 6 Nurses, Midwives, ODPs and Radiographers and Band 5 Orthoptists taking up substantive employment with the Trust.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 3 April 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 14 April 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
- First Level Registration
- Neonatal Critical Care qualification
- Teaching / mentorship qualification
- Neonatal Life Support Course
- Safeguarding level 3
Desirable criteria
- Enhanced Nursing Skills Qualification (ENP)
- Degree in relevant health related subject
- Leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Tertiary level neonatal nursing or equivalent experience
- Shift leader experience
- Transferring infants between departments internally
- Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality
Desirable criteria
- Experience of surgical neonatal nursing
- Transferring infants externally
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of professional issues
- Knowledge of team working dynamics
- Emotional intelligence
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of neonatal 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
Additonal 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]
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