Speciality Support Nurse - Trauma and Orthopaedics

Cambscommunityservices; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A premier healthcare organization in Cambridge is seeking a Trauma & Orthopaedics Clinical Nurse Specialist. This role involves providing high-quality patient care, developing specialized nursing programs, and supporting a dynamic team in a major trauma center. Ideal candidates will possess a nursing degree, relevant mentorship experience, and a commitment to professional development. The trust offers flexible working hours and excellent development opportunities in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Development opportunities

On-site leisure facilities

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current experience in trauma and orthopaedics.
• Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles.
• Commitment to continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, patient-focused care.
• Assess, develop, and implement nursing care programs.
• Liaise with other staff to provide specialist advice.

Skills

Good verbal and written communication skills

Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload

Effective time management

Interpersonal skills

Adaptable to changing situations

Education

Degree

Post registration qualification in specialty

Teaching or mentoring qualification

Job description

Main area: Trauma & Orthopaedics. Grade: Band 6. Contract: Permanent. Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered). Job ref 180-A-257189-RE.

Employer: Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Employer type: NHS. Site: Addenbrooke’s Hospital - Division A. Town: Cambridge. Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 p.a. pro rata. Salary period: Yearly. Closing date: 21/12/2025 23:59.

Job overview

This is an exciting time for the Trauma and Orthopaedics Clinical Nurse Specialist and Specialty Support Nurse team at CUH. We have a new Band 6 post providing an opportunity to join us. Our dynamic, motivated team of specialist nurses work across both trauma and elective patient pathways to provide the highest standards of evidence-based care.

We are a busy major trauma centre for the region with a variable caseload of major trauma patients to support through admission, inpatient care and discharge. This role will primarily support the Orthopaedic trauma unit – alongside junior / senior trauma fellows & consultants with aspects of supporting throughout the team.

These clinically based roles will require you to complete clinical assessment and examination skills modules. We are proud of our in-house and local university education opportunities, providing professional development and a rewarding working environment.

We are an integral part of various inpatient and outpatient services within our specialty. These include the Multiprofessional Fracture Clinic – a remote clinic supported by clinicians and ourselves. These services require a varied skillset to allow triaging of patients by phone and providing advice and reassurance with treatment plans.

This is a varied role for the right candidate. We are looking for self-motivated nurses with current experience in trauma and orthopaedics who are keen to further develop their knowledge and skills.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the provision of high quality, patient focused care.

Responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes.

Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff.

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
• 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

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 December 2025

Interviews are due to be held on 8 January 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

• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Teaching or mentoring qualification
• Post registration qualification in speciality or willingness to complete
• Degree
• Research Module

Experience

• Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles
• Accept personal accountability for own practice
• Experience of formal/informal teaching

Knowledge

• Understanding of evidence based practice
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Understanding and knowledge of specialist field

Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
• Adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time management.
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
• Assertiveness/perceptive counselling skills
• Documentation, audit and presentation skills

Additional Requirements

• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with the 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.

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.

Elizabeth Shirland
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Limb Reconstruction/Orthopaedic Trauma
07759135036
[emailprotected]