Colposcopy Nurse Specialist - Great Yarmouth
Job overview
Here is an exciting opportunity for an experienced specialist nurse to develop and lead the colposcopy service at the QEH alongside our experienced Consultant Gynaecologist.
The role requires you to:
To practice independently as a Nurse Colposcopist, accredited by the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (BSCCP).
To hold the Colposcopy Screening Programme Lead (CSPL) role as set out by Public Health England (PHE) for the Trust.
To work as an advanced practitioner and effectively lead and deliver an expert nursing service within the Gynaecology Department.
To maintain a cost-effective service, based upon the objectives of the department, care group and the Trust.
To manage a caseload of patients within the Colposcopy service and lead the multi-disciplinary team meetings ensuing reviews are conducted timely and patients are kept informed.
To ensure that patients and their families are fully informed and supported by providing clinical and social support.
To assist in the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines.
Main duties of the job
Provide an evidence-based specialist nursing service, which is responsive to user’s needs, to a cohort of patients referred to the specialist service/MDT. Care will reflect current local protocols and national guidelines and will be delivered through face-to face consultation or via telephone communication on a day-to-day basis.
Work clinically for 80% of the role demonstrating advanced practice skills in the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for the cohort of patients within the specialist service. This will necessitate high levels of autonomy and advocacy, using analytical and judgemental skills in undertaking differential diagnosis to ensure the delivery of appropriate care, in accordance with the BSCCP/NHSCSP guidelines.
20% of your role will be completing any necessary colposcopy administration, audit, MDT planning and national reporting.
Manage a cohort of patients and prioritise workload to meet patient and service need. Nurse Colposcopist Specialist The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust February 2025.
Undertake clinical competencies relevant to this specialist service to demonstrate expertise in extended nursing roles. Assess and effectively manage individual psychological reactions to diagnosis, treatment and associated side effects of including risk of cervical cancer, perception of sexually transmitted disease and future fertility.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.
We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding this exciting opportunity please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential criteria- Registered adult nurse
- Diploma/Degree in Nursing
- ENB 998/Mentorship
- Accredited BSCCP colposcopist accreditation
- Gynaecology qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- Relevant nursing experience and training within service
- Experience in ‘Womens Health’ or gynaecology/sexual health
- Experience of working in a colposcopy clinic
- Extensive experience of working autonomously at an advanced level in the specialist area
- Experience of implementing change management
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential criteria- Excellent communication skills
- Resourceful, able to prioritise and manage a varied complex workload
- Commitment to deliver high quality-based care
- Maintain accurate contemporaneous records in line with local and national governance/guidelines
- Proven listening and counselling skills
We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).
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We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including:
- Flexible working opportunities
- Free counselling service
- NHS Pension scheme
- Access to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*
- Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or Menopause
- Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks.
We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.
Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.
Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident.
Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff should be computer literate.
Certificates of Sponsorship/Visa and Immigration
If you wish to apply for this vacancy and would require sponsorship to work in this role (including if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change your employer), you can look at the government website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job and assess your circumstances against the criteria specified.This will determine your likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post.