Clinical Specialist Practitioner in Adult Critical Care
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2026 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7677633/180-B-253196 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
A permanent or fixed term/secondment opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join our Critical Care team, working in the trust’s Adult Critical Care areas. You will work within a large team of physiotherapists lead by a Consultant physiotherapist to support the respiratory care, weaning and rehabilitation of a wide range of critically ill patients.
We are a large multi-speciality hospital supporting both the local population and wider tertiary populations. You will have the opportunity to work in all of our perioperative specialities –John Farnam Intensive Care unit, and Neuroscience Critical Care Unit, (both are large multi-speciality and tertiary ICU’s).
You would be supported in learning new skills and gaining additional training to support your work within these large multi-speciality intensive care units.
We can offer you:
• Strong peer support
• Positive commitment to CPD and post-graduate education. The department has a proven record of accomplishment in supporting those staff wishing to undertake Master’s level studies.
• Development of your supervisory, teaching and management skills
• Service development opportunities.
The team is friendly and dedicated towards the delivery of an excellent service for all our users, as well as constantly looking at better ways to provide a service. You will be required to partake in our Emergency out of hour’s services, which includes our weekend and on-call services.
As a Clinical Specialist Practitioner you will have responsibilities that would include:
Planning, delivery and evaluation of the adult critical care physiotherapy service
Supervision of staff and students
To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in a Perioperative bed (John Farman ICU, IDA, Neuro Critical care Unit (NCCU). You will also be required to occasionally treat patients in a level one surgical bed.
To undertake management roles including coordinating workloads, delegating duties, appraising and mentoring physiotherapists, participate in recruitment and selection.
To maintain specialist respiratory physiotherapy competency in order to participate in the out of hour's respiratory physiotherapy service and to assist in the training of Physiotherapy staff to a level of agreed competency.
To act independently and without supervision.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
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
This vacancy will close at midnight on 28th December 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 9th 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 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 28 Dec 2025
A permanent or fixed term/secondment opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join our Critical Care team, working in the trust’s Adult Critical Care areas. You will work within a large team of physiotherapists lead by a Consultant physiotherapist to support the respiratory care, weaning and rehabilitation of a wide range of critically ill patients.
We are a large multi-speciality hospital supporting both the local population and wider tertiary populations. You will have the opportunity to work in all of our perioperative specialities –John Farnam Intensive Care unit, and Neuroscience Critical Care Unit, (both are large multi-speciality and tertiary ICU’s).
You would be supported in learning new skills and gaining additional training to support your work within these large multi-speciality intensive care units.
We can offer you:
• Strong peer support
• Positive commitment to CPD and post-graduate education. The department has a proven record of accomplishment in supporting those staff wishing to undertake Master’s level studies.
• Development of your supervisory, teaching and management skills
• Service development opportunities.
The team is friendly and dedicated towards the delivery of an excellent service for all our users, as well as constantly looking at better ways to provide a service. You will be required to partake in our Emergency out of hour’s services, which includes our weekend and on-call services.
As a Clinical Specialist Practitioner you will have responsibilities that would include:
Planning, delivery and evaluation of the adult critical care physiotherapy service
Supervision of staff and students
To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in a Perioperative bed (John Farman ICU, IDA, Neuro Critical care Unit (NCCU). You will also be required to occasionally treat patients in a level one surgical bed.
To undertake management roles including coordinating workloads, delegating duties, appraising and mentoring physiotherapists, participate in recruitment and selection.
To maintain specialist respiratory physiotherapy competency in order to participate in the out of hour's respiratory physiotherapy service and to assist in the training of Physiotherapy staff to a level of agreed competency.
To act independently and without supervision.
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
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
This vacancy will close at midnight on 28th December 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 9th 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 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 28 Dec 2025