OH Senior Nurse Advisor

Main area Occupational Health Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Corporate Town Cambridge Salary £49,387 - £56,515 p.a. pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 14/07/2026 23:59 Interview date 31/07/2026

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Occupational Health (OH) and Wellbeing team as an OH Senior Nurse Advisor.

You will play an important part in the work of the busy OH service by providing clinical, professional and managerial leadership for the team of registered nurses and technicians.

The OH Senior Nurse Advisor will help to ensure a professional, timely and efficient OH service to staff across Cambridge University Hospitals and external organisations.

OH qualification and experience is essential but we may consider applicants that are working towards this.

To work alongside the existing OH Senior Nurse Advisors to ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the wide range of clinical services provided by the OH nursing team. Including, but not limited to, management referrals, pre-employment screening, health surveillance and infectious incident contact tracing. This role includes nursing leadership for the Royal Papworth Hospital OH contract.

To provide leadership, advice, support and line management to the OH nursing team. This will include recruitment, professional development plans, appraisals, sickness and performance management processes.

To undertake clinical duties to encompass the full scope of OH nursing including management referral appointments and any new initiatives as they arise.

To monitor Key Performance Indicators and investigate and address any service issues in a prompt manner, escalating as required.

To develop new and update existing OH protocols, PGDs, procedures and policies to ensure they are evidence based and up to date and there is consistency in approach across the nursing team.

To work closely with the OH Clinical Lead, Head of Service, Senior Lead Nurse and members of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), doctor team and wider OH clinical and administrative team members.

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

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 ever, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 14 July 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 31 July 2026.

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…