Senior Sister/ Senior Charge Nurse - Ward N2 Infection & Inflammation inCambridge inCambridge PUBLISHED THU 2 JAN 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated nurse with excellent leadership and management skills and high standards of quality to join our team on Ward N2 as a Senior Sister/Senior Charge Nurse.

N2 is a 22 bed Ward that is all siderooms. We specialise in caring for patients who have Respiratory and Gastroenterology Infections who require to be barrier nursed.

You must be an experienced individual who is able to work with a large multidisciplinary team to promote change, high quality patient care and effective patient flow.

You will lead and co-ordinate a multidisciplinary team to ensure an optimum level of safe and effective patient care within budgetary resources.You will be required to assess care needs, to develop, to implement and evaluate programmes of care.

You will be responsible for all aspects of staff management and recruitment in line with HR policy. You will be required to participate in Divisional bleep holder rotas which entails a late shift and weekend shift.

You will be a visible presence in the ward area and be responsible for all aspects of clinical governance and management within the ward area.

About us

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.jobsincare.com/job/jbnsgL6T

This vacancy will close at midnight on 12 January 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 23 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.

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 caf, 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.