Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Endoscopist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-A-CVA1235
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CUH Trust
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/10/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/10/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Endoscopist
Band 8a
Job overview
Clinical Endoscopist – Shape the Future of Endoscopy at CUH
Ready to take your endoscopy career to the next level? Come and help us shape the future of Clinical Endoscopy at Cambridge University Hospitals.
Our busy 7-room Endoscopy Unit operates 7 days a week and delivers a comprehensive range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including complex EMR, ERCP, SpyGlass, PEG and cystogastrostomy. We are an accredited Bowel Cancer Screening Centre and home to the Cambridge Endoscopy Training Academy.
We are looking for an experienced, JAG-accredited Clinical Endoscopist to join us and help develop our growing Clinical Endoscopist team.
You will have your own dedicated lists and the opportunity to work independently, supported by an experienced team of medical Endoscopists. You will also contribute to training through the Cambridge Endoscopy Training Academy and work approximately one weekend in six.
Main duties of the job
What you’ll bring
- Independent experience in Upper and Lower GI endoscopy
- JAG accreditation
- Non-Medical Prescriber status, or willingness to undertake this
- Bowel Cancer Screening colonoscopy accreditation, or be working towards it
- Excellent clinical judgement and evidence-based decision-making
- Advanced communication skills, including confidence in breaking bad news
- A passion for delivering outstanding, patient-centred care
Why CUH?
Our values — Together, Safe, Kind and Excellent — are at the heart of everything we do.
You’ll join a supportive, innovative team where collaboration, education and continuous improvement are encouraged, while having the opportunity to make a real difference to patients and shape the development of Clinical Endoscopy at CUH.
The post is based in Cambridge, with potential opportunities to work at other local sites as the service develops.
Come and meet us. See the unit. Meet the team. Imagine what you could achieve at CUH.
We strongly encourage an informal visit or discussion about this exciting opportunity
Working for our organisation
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)
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 4th October 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 13th October 2026.
All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 2026 will be subject to a 12-week probationary period. This provides a structured and supportive period to help you settle into your role, with regular reviews and feedback.
As there is a 12-week probationary period, successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver.
To be added to all advertised permanent vacancies:
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
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:
Name
Rebecca Norton
Job title
Deputy Divisional Head of Nursing
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07355 101410
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN with a degree
- JAG accredited endoscopist in basic skills colonoscopy and OGD
- Research Module
- Advanced clinical assessment skills (if nurse led services part of role)
- Teaching & mentoring qualification
- Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
- Leadership or management module
- Willingness & ability to work toward masters
- ILS/ALS
- Non-medical prescriber, or working towards
- Accredited practitioner Bowel cancer screening programmes (or working towards)
Desirable criteria
- Advanced communication skills or Counselling qualification.
- Masters degree
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience as nurse specialist in the speciality.
- Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the ability to clinically assess and diagnose.
- Experience in project management
- Evidence of leading service change.
- Audit or research experience
- Managing and or leading a team
- Experience of training endoscopists, TTT course
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience of policy development
- Managing a budget
- Experience of nursing cancer patients
- Involvement in GRS/JAG accreditation
- Evidence of standard setting and protocol development
- NHS experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication and counselling skills
- Proven leadership and team leading skills
- Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development
- Ability to assess psychosocial and psychological needs of patients
Desirable criteria
- Working towards advance therapeutic interventions such as EMR, managing large polyps, PEG insertion
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Norton
- Job title
- Deputy Divisional Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07355 010 410
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