Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Lead Nurse to join our multi-disciplinary Occupational Health and Wellbeing service at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for someone who is a natural role model, who consistently demonstrates the Trust values with a passion for supporting and developing others while providing visible leadership skills to motivate and inspire their teams.
The OH department provides the full range of OH services to over 13,000 employees across CUH as well as to external clients. We are proud to be accredited by SEQOHS, meeting the Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health standards.
We aim 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. Based in a purpose-built building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, our Occupational Health team includes occupational health specialist doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and administrative personnel.
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.
Part-time (minimum of 30 hours/week over four days) or job share opportunities may be considered.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide professional oversight to the Occupational Health nursing team. They will be accountable for the efficient and effective operational management of the nursing workforce, guaranteeing provision of high quality evidence based nursing practice, and will play 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 service users. They will have a particular responsibility to support the developments of Clinical Governance (including SEQOHS), be the Clinical Lead for IT systems and Service Improvement, to modernise services and ensure the active involvement of service users and partners in the way Occupational Health services are developed, delivered and evaluated.
About us
Come Nurse with us...
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) 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.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Closing date is midnight on 7 August 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 16 August 2024
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)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
If you require sponsorship for a Visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check you are not applying from a Red list country - Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Closing date is midnight on 7 August 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 16 August 2024
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)
Benefits to you
We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse, day nurseries and access to a great transport system with easy access to airports and rail travel.
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
- Registered Nurse
- Postgraduate qualification in Occupational Health (OH) or equivalent or working towards
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Management/leadership skills qualification, training and/or development
Desirable
- 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
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience as a nurse specialist in the OH speciality (including case management, vaccination programmes, triaging referrals and health surveillance)
- Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the 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)
- Risk management
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- Advanced clinical skills in OH specialty
- 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
- Good IT skills - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Additional Requirements
Essential
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Postgraduate qualification in Occupational Health (OH) or equivalent or working towards
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Management/leadership skills qualification, training and/or development
Desirable
- 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
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Significant clinical experience as a nurse specialist in the OH speciality (including case management, vaccination programmes, triaging referrals and health surveillance)
- Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the 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)
- Risk management
- 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
Desirable
- 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
Essential
- Advanced clinical skills in OH specialty
- 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
- Good IT skills - MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Additional Requirements
Essential
- 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.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).