Staff Nurse - Transplant

Job summary

Become part of a renowned transplant team recognised for innovation, expertise and pioneering care.

Royal Papworth Hospital is the largest adult cardiothoracic transplant centre in the UK and a global pioneer in DCD heart transplantation. Our committed teams perform approximately 90 heart, lung, and heart-lung transplants each year. Since our first successful heart transplant in 1979, nearly 3,000 transplants have been carried out. With world-leading survival rates, an increasing number of our patients are now celebrating 30+ years post-transplant.

We care for around 1,000 transplant recipients and facilitate organ retrieval for other UK centres.

We are committed to supporting your professional growth, by ensuring you receive a development programme that includes; exposure to cutting-edge organ retrieval techniques and novel technologies, assessing patients for transplant along with comprehensive inpatient and outpatient care and opportunities for academic investment and continuous learning.

This is a rewarding and challenging role that combines a structured developmental package with a friendly, supportive working environment to make a difference to patients' lives while advancing your career.

Join our dedicated Transplant team and take the next step in your nursing career within a dynamic and highly specialised healthcare environment.

Main duties of the job

Under the guidance of our experienced senior nurses, you will become an integral member of a multidisciplinary team dedicated to providing excellent long-term care within cardiothoracic transplant.

Key responsibilities will include;

*Providing essential support to cardiothoracic transplant patients and their carers during both inpatient and outpatient assessment, alongside those on the waiting list and with mechanical circulatory support devices. You will also manage their care whilst in the community to ensure continuity of support.

*Enhance your expertise by educating patients, carers and staff on medication management and long-term post-transplant care. You will coordinate outpatient services and manage a telephone helpline, contributing directly to improved patient outcomes.

*You will play a critical role as a skilled and highly valued member of the National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS) team, participating in a 24/7 on-call rota that is fundamental to the delivery of heart and lung transplantation services across the UK. This is an essential part of the role and a core obligation of NHSBT, ensuring the timely retrieval and transportation of organs to support life-saving transplants. You will also be exposed to paediatric organ retrieval.

*Demonstrating excellent history-taking and clinical assessment skills, with the ability to interpret investigations and differentiate between potential rejection and infection, ensuring patients receive safe, evidence-based advice and management.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Details

• Date posted: 27 May 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 175-2627-TR1803
• Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.