37.5 hours per week (2.5 days Management and 2.5 days Clinical)
Permanent
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum (dependent on experience)
Closing Date: Friday 11th September 2026
Interview Date: TBC
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Are you an experienced nurse passionate about women’s health and committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Are you an experienced nurse passionate about women’s health? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Gynaecology and colposcopy Lead Nurse to lead the Gynaecology Outpatient Team at GEH, overseeing outpatient services, cancer pathways, nurse-led clinics, the Early Pregnancy Unit, and the Gynaecology Assessment Unit.
Provide specialist nursing expertise, ensuring all staff are supported in their practice on day to day and ongoing basis. Use advanced decision making skills to utilise all available resources to deliver nursing care effectively and efficiently in a timely manner.
Ensure that Nursing and Clinical Pathways/Guidelines/Protocols are
implemented and maintained. Ensure good standards of practice in the department, through participation in effective quality assurance measures such as clinical audit programmes.
Manage and effectively support patients through the delivery of difficult news.
Take responsibility for the duty rotas for the staff to provide effective and well balanced cover to meet with the requirements of the service and ensure the presence of suitably qualified and experienced nurses and support staff at all times. Develop new ways of working if workload requires this.
As part of the lead Colposcopy nurse, you will be expected to work alongside the CSPL, Colposcopy coordinator and lead consultants to develop guidance, SOPS and patient information leaflets. Some of these reports are time sensitive for regional and national parties.
As the lead you will be invited to specialist MDT and meetings surrounding the Gynaecology, EPAGU and cancer meetings and Colposcopy.
Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘ excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Patient Care
Provide specialist nursing expertise, ensuring all staff are supported in their practice on day to day and ongoing basis.
To ensure the assessment, development and evaluation of programmes of care in order to co-ordinate the holistic needs of women.
Uses advanced decision making skills to utilise all available resources to deliver nursing care effectively and efficiently in a timely manner.
To take measures to ensure the safety of women, which includes delegation of patient care to nurses and/or support staff with the appropriate levels of skills at all times, making adjustments as workload and caseload alters, using developed decision making skills.
To report any incidents/accidents to the matron, completing Datix when
appropriate Lead and/or assist in investigation of complaints and implement recommendations arising from these investigations.
To facilitate research based practice within the department and ensure
appropriate implementation.
To ensure that Nursing and Clinical Pathways/Guidelines/Protocols are implemented and maintained.
To ensure good standards of practice in the department, through participation in effective quality assurance measures such as clinical audit programmes.
Audit and evaluate the emergency gynaecology service in order to develop staff and practice.
To manage and effectively support patients through the delivery of difficult news, e.g. diagnosis of miscarriage, termination or ectopic pregnancy.
Provide care to bereaved patients and their relatives introducing the bereavement team for specialised care and follow up.
Communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary professionals and agencies, ensuring seamless care at a high standard.
Produce patient information, ensuring it is updated to reflect current research based practice.
To engage with service users, ensuring feedback is actively shared and supports developments within the service.
Work two clinical shifts per week in the clinical area and provide support
where necessary where staffing limits fall short of the required limits.
Management and ensure that duty rotas for the staff will provide effective and well balanced cover to meet with the requirements of the service and ensure the presence of suitably qualified and experienced nurses and support staff at all times.
Develop new ways of working if workload requires this.
To liaise with other ward/department managers and Lead Sonographer within the Directorate as necessary, to ensure workload and skill mix are effectively managed. Inform and discuss with Matron any problems highlighted.
Participate in audit programmes and present results.
Respond appropriately to incidents reported via the Datix system and investigations with monitoring of action plans
To develop and embed evidence based care ensuring national guidance is implemented.
Communicate complex and sensitive patient and staff information facilitating good working relationships.
Ensure all resources are used to the optimum and manage the department’s budget.
To ensure all staff are conversant and comply with Trust policies and regulations and attend mandatory updates as instructed.
To monitor the safe and effective use of all equipment and the economic use of supplies and ordering equipment replacement, together with maintenance of that equipment.
To maintain accurate management records relating to all aspects of
department management.
To lead, motivate and develop staff to provide high standards of nursing care and be responsible for the management of Health & Safety matters, identifying that their work areas comply with all Health & Safety regulations.
To carry out annual Personal Development Reviews of staff within the unit.
To have knowledge and ability to appropriately escalate to matron ensuring safe practice and care at all times. To provide support to medical staff who are working in the department
Education & Training
To be a senior supervisor and assessor and preceptor to junior nurses and student nurses, working closely with education providers.
To ensure staff are able to reach their full potential by enabling them to develop professional, clinical, managerial and communication skills, which will be identified through the use of appraisals and effective communication skills.
To plan and participate in the teaching programmes of students, working closely with the Universities.
To develop the nursing role within the area, providing training and
assessment to extend clinical skills, as appropriate to the area.
To identify areas for development of skills in line with the local and national guidance. To monitor and effectively manage all staff compliance within ESR for their statutory and mandatory training.
Professional
To take all measures to ensure safety and report all accidents/incidents to the Matron and to monitor the safe and effective use of all equipment and the economic use of supplies.
Maintain accurate management records at all times, ensuring appropriate reporting mechanisms are used.
To maintain a professional attitude at all times, developing the role of the nurse in the best interest of the patient and profession in accordance with the NMC documents.
To promote a positive attitude for the profession and the Trust within which you are working.
To be aware of personal and professional development. To attend courses and conferences as recommended and approved by the matron.
To co-ordinate the development and implementation of the policies and protocols with particular emphasis on those that relate to gynaecology.
To be conversant and comply with the gynaecology services guidelines and attend mandatory updates as instructed.
Participate in research projects where appropriate, reporting findings within a multi-disciplinary framework and Implement research where appropriate.
To be professionally accountable for one’s own nursing practice, acting in a professional manner at all times abiding by the Code of Conduct and all other relevant NMC and Trust practice protocols and guidelines.
To be responsible for the maintenance and improvement of own professional knowledge and competence in keeping with the practice and CPD standard laid down by the NMC to ensure continued professional registration.
Personnel
To participate in the selection, interviewing and induction of new members of staff.
To be involved in manpower requirements in line with identified service developments, making recommendations on improvements in service as appropriate.
To be responsible for the maintenance of day to day discipline within the ward/department and to undertake, where necessary, initiation of the disciplinary procedure.
To counsel staff in relation to professional and personal matters including the management of sickness absence.
To manage hazards/unsafe practices and ensure all accidents/untoward incidents are recorded in accordance with the laid down procedures, escalating to Matron/Operational Manager when required.
Monitor staff performance with mandatory training. Organise staff appraisals, ensuring that developmental needs are linked to the maternity training plan.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
