Clinical Nurse Specialist Stroke & MT

Clinical Nurse Specialist Stroke & MT

The closing date is 20 April 2026

Join our dynamic Stroke Alert Team at Addenbrooke's Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a leading Comprehensive Stroke Centre, delivering 24/7 expert care across hyperacute stroke - thrombolysis, and mechanical thrombectomy pathways.

You will play a key role in triaging possible stroke patients to the right treatment, supporting regional repatriations, participating in service improvement, supporting data collection and audit, and driving clinical excellence and innovation in stroke care as well as further developing your clinical skills as a specialist nurse.

We are looking for a motivated and forward thinking nurse with a passion for service development and high quality patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Provide high quality, patient focused care.
• Assess, develop and implement specialist nursing care programmes.
• Provide specialist advice and support to, and liaise with, other staff.

Benefits to you

• Development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries.
• Reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site.
• Free Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites, and free route to/from Cambridge train station.
• Subsidised cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
• 24/7 hot food at a reduced cost for colleagues.
• Dedicated staff pod break spaces with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area.
• Flexible working arrangements (part time, job share, term time, flexible start/finish).

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Interviews are due to be held on 29 April 2026.

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

• 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.
• Show behaviour 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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust