Paediatric Plastics and Cleft Specialist Support Nurse
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 p.a. pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 21 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Cwmni: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7620982/180-E-257279 |
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A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the East of England Cleft Lip and Palate service. We provide nursing care and support to families in the antenatal period through to adulthood for those born with a cleft. This role also incorporates the paediatric plastic surgery service at CUH which will include children admitted through the regional trauma service and it’s elective plastic surgical cases.
We are looking for a motivated, organised and autonomous practitioner to support both our Cleft nurse specialist team and our Paediatric plastics nurse specialist. The role is an exciting opportunity to work with a truly multi-disciplinary team caring for infants, children and young people in the region.
Exemplary communication skills and clinical leadership is essential with a desire to support the ward and clinic nursing teams with teaching and specialist advice. Post-operative nursing skills and wound care is advantageous in this role and coordinating complex cases desirable. There will be a focus within this role, with supporting the older child through alveolar bone graft surgery, secondary speech surgery and transition into adult care.
We are committed to providing continuing professional development, which will be supported and encouraged.
Working alongside the Clinical Nurse specialists you will be responsible for assisting in the provision and coordination of an effective, comprehensive and integrated service. Provision of specialist education and training for families and carers and other staff and students will be a principle role. You will liaise with all relevant agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to children, young people and families under the care of the paediatric plastic/cleft team, providing guidance, support and advice. You will play a key role in the provision of a paediatric dressing clinic, where you will be responsible for assessing and managing surgical wounds following trauma, plastics and cleft surgery. You will ideally have additional skills in complex discharge planning, post operative nursing care and the high dependency infant and/or child in order to further develop your role within the clinical nurse specialist team.
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 ofTogether – Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport 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)
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
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 30 November 2025
Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 8 December 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join the East of England Cleft Lip and Palate service. We provide nursing care and support to families in the antenatal period through to adulthood for those born with a cleft. This role also incorporates the paediatric plastic surgery service at CUH which will include children admitted through the regional trauma service and it’s elective plastic surgical cases.
We are looking for a motivated, organised and autonomous practitioner to support both our Cleft nurse specialist team and our Paediatric plastics nurse specialist. The role is an exciting opportunity to work with a truly multi-disciplinary team caring for infants, children and young people in the region.
Exemplary communication skills and clinical leadership is essential with a desire to support the ward and clinic nursing teams with teaching and specialist advice. Post-operative nursing skills and wound care is advantageous in this role and coordinating complex cases desirable. There will be a focus within this role, with supporting the older child through alveolar bone graft surgery, secondary speech surgery and transition into adult care.
We are committed to providing continuing professional development, which will be supported and encouraged.
Working alongside the Clinical Nurse specialists you will be responsible for assisting in the provision and coordination of an effective, comprehensive and integrated service. Provision of specialist education and training for families and carers and other staff and students will be a principle role. You will liaise with all relevant agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to children, young people and families under the care of the paediatric plastic/cleft team, providing guidance, support and advice. You will play a key role in the provision of a paediatric dressing clinic, where you will be responsible for assessing and managing surgical wounds following trauma, plastics and cleft surgery. You will ideally have additional skills in complex discharge planning, post operative nursing care and the high dependency infant and/or child in order to further develop your role within the clinical nurse specialist team.
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 ofTogether – Safe, Kind, Excellentsupport 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)
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
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 30 November 2025
Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 8 December 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.
This advert closes on Sunday 30 Nov 2025