CHEERS Network Coordinator

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Children’s Services team at Cambridge University Hospitals in a key administrative role within the CHEERS Network (Child and Adolescent East of England Rheumatology Service).

You will work closely with colleagues across Children’s Services at CUH and across the network at a regional level.

The role requires administrative and organisational skills, the ability to prioritise effectively whilst working to deadlines, a keen eye for details and excellent communication skills. Experience with data and Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and Word are highly desirable.

If you are a motivated team player with the ability to successfully manage multiple priorities and would like to work as a key member of a busy team, then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To support the professional administration to the Child and Adolescent East of England Rheumatology Service (CHEERS) to all its users, including patients, relatives and colleagues.

You will provide comprehensive high quality administrative support to the Paediatric Rheumatology Clinical Team. This will specifically include liaising with colleagues from around the region to ensure care is optimised for patients, their families and our colleagues within the clinical network, as well as proactively managing patient pathways, booking patients in line with Trust and Network Policies and National targets.

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

As per Home Office guidelines, please be aware that, unfortunately, the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular position.

The advert will close at midnight on 30 July 2026.

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 3 August 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.