Gynaecology & Early Pregnancy Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job summary

We are looking for a compassionate, highly motivated Gynaecology and Early Pregnancy Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team. You should have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a genuine passion for caring for women undergoing a range of early pregnancy complications and gynaecology issues.

You will be working alongside a supportive and committed MDT. The service ethos is to provide time-critical rapid assessment of women working in close liaison with our ED, midwifery and GP colleagues. The successful candidate ideally should have knowledge and experience of gynaecology and early pregnancy management and treatment pathways.

We run a Gynaecology Assessment Unit (GAU) and Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit (EPAU) at the Royal Derby Hospital.

Excellent teamwork skills are vital to allow collaboration across the team and the ability to manage your own workload is essential. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist you would be expected to take the role of nurse in charge on some of your shifts.

Our unit delivers specialist, evidence-based, holistic care to women with early pregnancy complications and emergency gynaecological conditions in an environment that supports patient choice and dignity. Our team consists of Consultant Gynaecologists, senior sister, specialist nurses, registered nurses, health care support workers and receptionists.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to:

Run the Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit clinics, evaluate, plan and implement care for women who are experiencing early pregnancy complications such as miscarriage or ectopic.

Run the Gynaecology Assessment Unit in evaluating, planning, and implementing care to a group of women who attend for early pregnancy complications and gynaecology issues. You will be expected to undertake nurse led triaging of patients, following local and national policy, working alongside our team of gynaecology Doctors.

To take an active role in service improvement and audit of the service. You will also take on the role of nurse in charge and oversee the Staff Nurses, Health Care Support Workers, receptionists, who are working in the unit.

You will partake in general department management duties, such as, staff training, competency assessment and staff appraisals.

To apply you will need to be a registered nurse with current NMC registration, have experience of working within gynaecology and an understanding of early pregnancy. A gynaecology course would be an advantage to the role.

Closing date of applications: 25 September 2025

Date of interview: 9 October 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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