Junior Sister - PANDR

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Junior Sister - PANDR

The closing date is 28 July 2026

Job summary
Are you a passionate Paediatric Critical Care Nurse ready for your next challenge? We're excited to invite experienced nurses to join our Paediatric Transport Service at Band 6--a unique and highly rewarding career opportunity.

PaNDR (Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval Service) is the dedicated neonatal and paediatric retrieval service for the East of England. Our neonatal and paediatric teams work within their specialist areas while collaborating closely to deliver seamless, high-quality critical care. Together, we provide expert stabilisation and retrieval for neonates and children up to 16 years of age, supporting them both at referring hospitals and during ambulance transfers to specialist care centres.

This role offers an exceptional opportunity to expand your advanced critical care skills, working within a small, highly skilled team to stabilise and transport some of the sickest children and young people in the region. You'll also play an active role in outreach education, developing and delivering learning alongside the MDT to healthcare teams across the East of England.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to infants requiring emergency and elective transfer. Team working ability and leadership skills will be used to ensure safe and effective delivery of the service for staff, parents and children according to the CUH Trust values and behaviours.

We provide a comprehensive induction programme, including transport-specific competencies and specialist equipment training. Ongoing professional development is embedded into our culture, with daily teaching sessions and regular simulation training to keep your skills sharp and current. You'll rotate across three teams, delivering a 24/7 service, 365 days a year.

If you're looking to be part of a friendly, forward-thinking, and innovative team committed to delivering family-centred care to critically ill children, we'd love to hear from you.

About us
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)

Details
Date posted: 17 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year, per annum, pro-rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 180-E-267209
Job locations: Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
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 28 July 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 07 Aug 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 caf, 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

• First Level Registration
• Paediatric Critical Care qualification
• Teaching / mentorship qualification
• Paediatric Life Support Course
• Safeguarding level 3

Desirable:

• Enhanced Nursing Skills
• Degree in relevant health related subject
• Leadership qualification

Experience

• PICU nursing experience
• Shift leader experience
• Transferring children between departments internally
• Experience of being involved in governance processes which help to development the service and measure quality

Desirable:

• Experience of surgical paediatric nursing
• Transferring children externally

Knowledge

• Awareness of professional issues
• Knowledge of team working dynamics
• Emotional intelligence

Desirable:

• Knowledge of paediatric transport developments and strategic national agenda

Skills

• Ability to be calm under pressure
• Effective team member
• Able to take responsibility and use feedback for service improvement
• Basic IT skills

Desirable:

• Budgetary skills
• Intermediate IT skills

Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
• The following hazards are associated with this job role: Contact with patients in a clinical environment, Regular contact with patients who are vulnerable to infection, Contact with patients who are known to be infected, Shift work including night duty, Manual handling, Regular hand hygiene exposing to skin sensitisers (exc latex)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, United Kingdom
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For questions about the job, contact:
Matron, Lorraine High, View email address on meeveem.com