Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-A-247463
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division A
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/01/2025
Employer heading
Matron - Critical Care
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a highly motivated and experienced Critical Care Nurse who is looking to fulfil their potential at a higher grade? Within Division A we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and supportive Matron team as one of two Matrons for Critical Care.Â
We are looking for an experienced senior Critical Care Nurse, someone who is a natural role model, who consistently demonstrates the Trust values with a passion for supporting and developing others while delivering high quality, safe care to our patients. This is an important Nursing leadership role in an innovative and supportive Division here at Cambridge University Hospital NHS Trust.
Please note the post will be available from May 2025 onwards
Main duties of the job
Provide professional and managerial leadership to the relevant nursing teams and providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the provision of high quality, responsive services with the needs of the patient at the centre of care delivery
Provide nursing leadership to assigned inpatient and theatre teams
Work in partnership with Divisional Head of Nursing and the wider Divisional Management Team to ensure effective and efficient management of services to meet agreed standards within the resources available.
Be accountable for all clinical aspects of quality within the service
Maintain a visible presence where patients, carers, staff and visitors can turn for assistance and upon whom they can rely to ensure that the fundamental and specialist aspects of care are met. This includes working clinical shifts.
Support the Divisional Head of Nursing by leading and developing nurses, nursing practice and improvements in patient care
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.Â
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
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This vacancy will close at midnight on 1 January 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 14 January 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.Â
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
- Additional relevant Critical Care nursing qualification or equivalent experience
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Management & leadership training
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate qualification
- Recent attendance on a leadership development programme
- MSC or willing to work towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial experience of managing a Clinical area / Team
- Demonstrable success in working collaboratively across professions and services
- Demonstrable success in:- - managing change & innovative working - introducing evidence based practice
- Audit Experience
- Experience of co-ordination of complex discharges
Desirable criteria
- Research experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Clinical practice and demonstrable knowledge of developments in nursing policy and practice
- Clinical governance
- The importance of successful partnership working
- Principles of lifelong learning
- Professional education and training
- Workforce planning, recruitment and retention
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to lead and motivate empower others
- Highly developed communications skills including: - inter-personal skills - liaison and negotiation skills - writing and presentation skills
- Advising and influencing senior managers in relation to risk management and quality improvement
- Budget management
- Developing and implementing policies, guidelines and projects from initiation to completion
- Computer literacy
- Ability to prioritise work, meet tight deadlines and work independently
- Positive and effective team worker
- Ability to respond and manage emergency situations
- Ability to make effective judgements in stressful situations
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.
- Flexibility in attitude and hours
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
- Sian Brown
- Job title
- Head of Nursing Division A
- Email address
- [email protected]
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