Lead Nurse Adult Critical Care Transfer Service (ACCTS)
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 April 2026 |
| Location: | Waterbeach, Cambridge, CB25 9TN |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7863503/180-A-267086 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you ready to make a real impact on patient care across the region? We are looking for an exceptional leader to drive the development and delivery of a specialist Adult Critical Care Transfer Service across the East of England. This is a unique opportunity to shape a vital regional service, improve patient outcomes, and work alongside leading clinicians and healthcare partners.
If you are passionate about clinical leadership, service innovation, and improving critical care pathways, this is your chance to lead a service that truly saves lives.
Be part of something that makes a difference—every single day
As a key leader within the service, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and delivering a regional Adult Critical Care Transfer Service that ensures critically ill patients receive safe, timely, and high-quality transfers between hospitals.
You will champion clinical excellence, innovation, and collaboration, ensuring care is delivered in line with national guidance, policies, and service frameworks.
• Lead and manage the East of England Adult Critical Care Transfer Service, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.
• Drive service development, overseeing implementation, operational delivery, and the establishment of a strong, resilient team infrastructure.
• Collaborate with regional stakeholders, including clinical leaders from Intensive Care Units across the East of England.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality care aligned with national guidance, policies, and frameworks for critical care services.
• Champion education and professional development, building key clinical and operational skills within the team.
• Develop and deliver regional transfer training programmes, supporting excellence in critical care transfers across the region.
Every transfer matters. Your leadership will help ensure that critically ill patients receive safe, coordinated, and expert care when it matters most. You’ll play a central role in shaping a service that supports hospitals, clinicians, and patients across the entire region.
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 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
• 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 date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 29th March 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 9th April 2026.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameRebecca Norton Job titleDeputy Head of Nursing - Division AEmail addressrebecca.norton18@nhs.netTelephone number07355010410Additional contact information
Dr Anne Booth
Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia and PHEM
anne.booth2@nhs.net
This advert closes on Monday 30 Mar 2026
Are you ready to make a real impact on patient care across the region? We are looking for an exceptional leader to drive the development and delivery of a specialist Adult Critical Care Transfer Service across the East of England. This is a unique opportunity to shape a vital regional service, improve patient outcomes, and work alongside leading clinicians and healthcare partners.
If you are passionate about clinical leadership, service innovation, and improving critical care pathways, this is your chance to lead a service that truly saves lives.
Be part of something that makes a difference—every single day
As a key leader within the service, you will be responsible for developing, managing, and delivering a regional Adult Critical Care Transfer Service that ensures critically ill patients receive safe, timely, and high-quality transfers between hospitals.
You will champion clinical excellence, innovation, and collaboration, ensuring care is delivered in line with national guidance, policies, and service frameworks.
• Lead and manage the East of England Adult Critical Care Transfer Service, ensuring the highest standards of clinical care.
• Drive service development, overseeing implementation, operational delivery, and the establishment of a strong, resilient team infrastructure.
• Collaborate with regional stakeholders, including clinical leaders from Intensive Care Units across the East of England.
• Ensure consistent, high-quality care aligned with national guidance, policies, and frameworks for critical care services.
• Champion education and professional development, building key clinical and operational skills within the team.
• Develop and deliver regional transfer training programmes, supporting excellence in critical care transfers across the region.
Every transfer matters. Your leadership will help ensure that critically ill patients receive safe, coordinated, and expert care when it matters most. You’ll play a central role in shaping a service that supports hospitals, clinicians, and patients across the entire region.
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 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
• 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 date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 29th March 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 9th April 2026.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
NameRebecca Norton Job titleDeputy Head of Nursing - Division AEmail addressrebecca.norton18@nhs.netTelephone number07355010410Additional contact information
Dr Anne Booth
Consultant in Neuroanaesthesia and PHEM
anne.booth2@nhs.net
This advert closes on Monday 30 Mar 2026