Senior Lead Nurse - Occupational Health & WellbeinginCambridgeinCambridgePUBLISHED WED 12 FEB 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Lead Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary Occupational Health and Wellbeing team at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Our Occupational Health team aims to improve the health, safety and general wellbeing of all staff, striving to create a healthier working environment, ensuring all staff who work at CUH have a good experience - with a positive impact on their health, safety and wellbeing. Based in a purpose-built building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, our Occupational Health team includes occupational health specialist doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and administrative personnel.

We are looking for:

An experienced and motivated clinical leader; a natural role model who consistently demonstrates the Trust values :Together- Kind, Safe, Excellent.

Experience in Occupational Health is desirable though not essential for this post. We are seeking a senior nurse with a passion for supporting and developing others whilst providing visible, on site leadership to motivate, develop and inspire their teams. You will have significant experience of line management, including sickness and performance management.

We are looking for a positive and effective team worker with highly developed communication skills. The ability to prioritise work, challenge, negotiate, take decisions and deliver under pressure is essential.

The Occupational Health Senior Lead Nurse will be an active member of the OH senior leadership team and will provide professional guidance, leadership and direction to the OH nursing team (Nurse Managers, Practice Development Nurse, Occupational Health Nurse Advisors, OH Nurses and Technicians).

Reporting to the Head of Service and working closely with the Clinical Lead and other members of SLT, the successful candidate will be accountable for the efficient and effective operational management of the nursing workforce, guaranteeing provision of high quality evidence based nursing practice and playing a pivotal role in successfully delivering on our key strategic priorities, physical health, psychological health and screening, surveillance and vaccination.

The post holder will be a strong clinical leader, highly visible and accessible to the OH team and service users. As an advocate for the nursing team, they will hold responsibility for clinical governance and risk management from a nursing perspective and will be the nursing lead for IT systems and service improvement.

About us

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.

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/jbnsx6Zl

This vacancy will close at midnight on 3 March 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 19 March 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.