Job summary
Do you want to contribute to world class outcomes for TB patients?

The TB Specialist Nurse team at CUH are pivotal in ensuring TB patients continue to receive world class care. The team are looking for an expert nurse practitioner to lead the TB CNS service at CUH.

If you have extensive experience in TB nursing and are passionate about making a real difference for patients diagnosed with TB then this could be the job for you.

Main duties of the job

• Manage and lead a specialist TB service with responsibility for ensuring high quality, expert nursing care and support for patients and their carers with a diagnosis of TB, MDRTB and nontuberculous mycobacteria, ensuring assessment and coordination of care in liaison with the multidisciplinary team and other health agencies.
• Responsible for the assessment, planning, diagnosis implementation and evaluation of care, as an autonomous practitioner with highly specialist skills in TB.
• Lead on improving the quality of the service through the development of nursing practice in line with local and national strategy and guidance ensuring a robust and excellent service.
• To be an expert nurse with strategic input at regional and national level.
• Tuberculosis Control Board representative for the East of England, working in collaboration with UKHSA, NHS England.
• Be actively involved in the development of the service locally and nationally ensuring positive working relationships with partner trusts and Cambridge and Peterborough TB network which includes local authority, integrated care boards, primary care and public health colleagues.

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)

Job 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.

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 19 Jul 2026

Interviews are due to be held on 27 Jul 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
Essential

• RGN with a degree
• Post registration module in Specialist field of work
• Research Module
• Advanced clinical assessment skills (if nurse led services part of role)
• Teaching & mentoring qualification
• Evidence of professional continuous development and portfolio of learning
• Leadership or management module
• Willingness & ability to work toward masters

Desirable

• Non-medical prescriber
• Advanced communication skills or Counselling qualification.
• Masters degree

Experience
Essential

• Significant clinical experience as nurse specialist in the speciality.
• Experience in project management
• Evidence of leading service change.
• Managing and or leading a team

Desirable

• Practical experience of policy development
• Audit or research experience
• NHS Experience

Knowledge
Essential

• Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the ability to clinically assess and diagnose.
• Budget management

Skills
Essential

• Advanced communication skills
• Effective communicator with proven ability to influence all levels of staff
• Ability to work autonomously as an independent practitioner.
• Proven leadership and team leading skills
• Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development.
• Presentation skills
• Able to respond to change and apply themselves to development in practice.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant Nurse for Transplant
Stephen Bond
stephen.bond3@nhs.net
07725173570