Main area Occupational Health Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent: 12-month Secondment or Fixed Term may be considered. Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Part-time may be considered (min 30 hours/week over 4 days) - Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered)
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Employer: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Addenbrookes Hospital-Corporate
Town: Cambridge
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 p.a. pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 19/03/2025
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Lead Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary Occupational Health and Wellbeing team at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Occupational Health team aims to improve the health, safety and general wellbeing of all staff, striving to create a healthier working environment, ensuring all staff who work at CUH have a good experience - with a positive impact on their health, safety and wellbeing.
We are looking for:
An experienced and motivated clinical leader; a natural role model who consistently demonstrates the Trust values: Together– Kind, Safe, Excellent.
Experience in Occupational Health is desirable though not essential for this post. We are seeking a senior nurse with a passion for supporting and developing others whilst providing visible, on-site leadership to motivate, develop and inspire their teams. You will have significant experience of line management, including sickness and performance management.
We are looking for a positive and effective team worker with highly developed communication skills. The ability to prioritise work, challenge, negotiate, take decisions and deliver under pressure is essential.
Main duties of the job
The Occupational Health Senior Lead Nurse will be an active member of the OH senior leadership team and will provide professional guidance, leadership and direction to the OH nursing team (Nurse Managers, Practice Development Nurse, Occupational Health Nurse Advisors, OH Nurses and Technicians).
Reporting to the Head of Service and working closely with the Clinical Lead and other members of SLT, the successful candidate will be accountable for the efficient and effective operational management of the nursing workforce, guaranteeing provision of high quality evidence based nursing practice and playing a pivotal role in successfully delivering on our key strategic priorities, physical health, psychological health and screening, surveillance and vaccination.
The post holder will be a strong clinical leader, highly visible and accessible to the OH team and service users. As an advocate for the nursing team, they will hold responsibility for clinical governance and risk management from a nursing perspective and will be the nursing lead for IT systems and service improvement.
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.
Please note: Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
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 3 March 2025
Interviews are due to be held on 19 March 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Advanced clinical assessment skills
* Non-medical prescriber
* OH research module
* Advanced communication skills or counselling qualification
* Master’s degree in OH or other relevant discipline e.g. public health or willingness to work towards
* Teaching and coaching/mentoring qualification
* Postgraduate qualification in OH or equivalent or working towards/willing to work towards
Knowledge /Experience
* Significant clinical experience as a nurse
* Ability to clinically assess and diagnose.
* Line management including recruitment and selection, induction, continuing professional development and performance management
* Operational service management including developing, monitoring and reporting on activity targets and key performance indicators (KPIs)
* Understanding of clinical governance and management of complaints and investigations
* Sound knowledge of relevant OH and staff health and safety legislation
* Experience in project management
* Evidence of leading service change.
* Managing resources
* Experience as a nurse in the OH speciality (including case management, vaccination programmes, triaging referrals and health surveillance)
* Recognised as an expert in the field of practice
* Practical experience of policy and process development
* Audit or research experience
* Experience of Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service (SEQOHS) standards and accreditation processes
* Broad range of OH experience both within an NHS OH setting and/or the private sector
* Infectious incident management experience
* Experience of leading staff health and wellbeing initiatives
* Experience of using NHS Occupational Health records systems e.g. Cority
Skills
* Advanced clinical skills
* Advanced communication skills including interpersonal skills, liaison, influencing, and negotiation skills, writing and presentation skills.
* Ability to work autonomously as an independent practitioner.
* Proven effective leadership and team leading skills with the ability to empower others
* Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development.
* Able to respond to change and apply themselves to development in practice.
* Excellent attention to detail
* Confident to manage complex sensitive negotiations to deliver service change and improvements
* Good organisational skills and proven ability to prioritise work and meet tight deadlines
* Clinical skills in OH speciality
Additional Requirements
* Highly motivated and proactive to find solutions
* Committed to continuous service development and quality improvement
* Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines and targets
* Reliable and supportive
* Ability to synthesise information, consider and evaluate risks and options when making difficult decisions
* Able to occasionally work outside of core office hours and at weekends when required for service delivery e.g. vaccination programmes and major incident responses
* To be primarily based on site with occasional home working subject to service need
* The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name: Ailsa Bowring
Job title: Head of Service - Occupational Health & Wellbeing
Email address: ailsa.bowring1@nhs.net
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