Main area Neonatal Intensive Care Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (11.5 Hours Shifts Including Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays) Job ref 180-E-258054
Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital – Division E Town Cambridge Salary £28,392 – £31,157 p.a pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/11/2026 23:59
Registered Nursing Associate – NICU/Transitional Care
Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered nursing associate to join the NICU team. You will be responsible for competently providing safe and effective care with minimal supervision to babies on the NICU. You will work, independently under the leadership of a registered nurse, operating within the sphere of nursing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programs of care. You will communicate effectively, with sensitivity and compassion, and manage relationships with parents, families and staff making reasonable adjustments where necessary.
We will offer you a full and comprehensive orientation package and professional support tailored to individual needs with ongoing support from the Team in order for you to achieve your full potential. You’ll get training and development in this friendly and dynamic organization which seeks to innovate and strives for excellence in delivering first-class patient care
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for competently providing safe and effective care with minimal supervision to infants requiring hospitalisation. You will work, independently under the leadership of registered nurses, operating within the sphere of nursing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating programmes of care. You will communicate effectively, with sensitivity and compassion, and to manage relationships with parents, babies and staff making reasonable adjustments where necessary.
Working for our organisation
Come Nurse with us…
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrookes 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 CUH?
- 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
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 is for Registered Nurses with full NMC registration. If you are an internationally trained nurse that has not passed their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), you will not be considered for this role and will be automatically rejected, so please do not apply.
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.
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.
This vacancy will close once 50 Applications Reached
Interviews will be held on the 16 Nov 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
- Current registration with NMC as a Nursing Associate
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development and its application
Experience
- Practical application of Trust documentation standards
- Self-motivated
- Ability to take initiative when required and liaise with the Registered Nurse or other registered care professionals as appropriate
- Maintenance of confidentiality
- Identify problems and recommend solutions
- Time management
- Awareness and respect for colleagues’, patients’, relatives’ cultural and emotional needs
- Able to remain calm and work effectively in pressured situations
- Willingness to adapt to change as the organisation develops
- Experience of mentoring junior staff
- Experience of mentoring junior staff
- NHS Experience
Knowledge
- Demonstrates evidence-based practice
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to the Registered Nurse or other registered care professionals
- Ability to work within relevant trust IT systems
- Current experience in a care setting
- Ability to work within relevant trust IT systems
- Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision, and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Detailed understanding of NMC proficiency standards for Nursing Associates
- Good theoretical and practical knowledge of nursing within the clinical environment
Skills
- Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and care providers
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own and others workload
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload
- Demonstrate respect for colleagues’, patients’, relatives’ cultural and emotional needs
- Evidence of time management skills
- Applies practical application of Trust documentation standards
- Effective use of equipment and resources
- Using reflective practice evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Able to supervise and to identify the key learning needs of junior staff and other learners
- Practical skills teaching
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 Helen Beavis/Stacey Miller Job title NICU Clinical Lead Nurses Additional information
Contacts Email Addresses – helen.beavis2@nhs.net/stacey.miller9@nhs.net
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