Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-E-267175
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Complex Discharge Nurse
Band 7
Job overview
We are looking to appoint an experienced paediatric nurse into our Complex Discharge post. You must have extensive experience in caring for children with complex needs ideally in both an acute and community setting. You will have sound clinical skills and expertise in a wide breadth of nursing. You will need to provide leadership and act as a key worker to achieve excellence in care and discharge planning. The overriding focus will be on quality of life for children and young people with the recognition of the need to be inclusive when making plans. Seeking always to reach the best care solutions within agreed time frames. Cambridge has a Paediatric Intensive Care that accommodates children across the whole of the East of England so you will be dealing with hospitals and services across the region.
You will be working alongside many specialist multi disciplinary teams and act as a point of contact to facilitate children and young people either returning to their homes, specialist rehabilitation centres or their local hospital. Therefore we are looking for an applicant with outstanding communication and organisational skills. The post holder will undertake clinical work and support the inpatient areas to facilitate smooth patient journey’s and to avoid any delays in discharge. Providing specialist advice and support to staff, including the provision of teaching and training.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting time to join Cambridge University Hospital as our new purpose built Childrens Hospital that will accommodate both physical and mental health is due to open in the next few years.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership and act as a key worker to achieve excellence in care and discharge planning. They will deliver the key NSF standards for children with complex needs. The overriding focus will be on quality of life and care for children and young people with a full recognition of the need to be inclusive when making good plans. The post holder will focus on seeking the best care solutions within the agreed time frame, challenging, where appropriate, views on patient/carer risks and resilience. The post holder will work across professional systems, organizational and geographic boundaries to facilitate the delivery of the key objectives.
Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students
Responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence based care
Required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area
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.
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
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 21 June 2026
Interviews are due to be held on 30 June 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse RSCN/RN Child Branch
- Degree in related subject
- Teaching/ mentor qualification
- Level 3 safeguarding
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Specialist Practitioner in Children’s Community Nursing
- Masters in related subject
- Advanced clinical assessment
- Advanced communication skills/ counselling qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working with children and young people with complex needs in community settings
- Experience of managing a patient caseload
- Experience of teaching parents, colleagues and students
- Experience of initiating change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with acutely unwell children in a hospital setting
- Experience or working with children with complex needs in a hospital setting
- Experience of setting up care packages for children with complex needs
- NHS experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of care packages and commissioning structure
- Understanding of Clinical Governance
- Understanding of patient pathway complexities and how to support the patient and family
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
- Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
- Adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleagues’ needs
- Leadership skills
- Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead developments in practice
- Commitment to multidisciplinary working
- Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills
- Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly
- Accept personal accountability for own practice
Desirable criteria
- Competent at managing tracheostomy’s victor
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct
- Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of wider issues related to the provision of community care for children with complex needs
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
- Emma Lally
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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