Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Reproductive Medicine

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Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in Cambridge is seeking a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Reproductive Medicine. The successful candidate will provide expert clinical care and lead nurse-led outpatient clinics, focusing on hysteroscopy and reproductive medicine. With a role Monday to Friday, the position offers full-time or part-time flexible working. Ideal candidates will be experienced Registered Nurses with evidence of continuous professional development and strong communication skills. A competitive salary package is offered, alongside numerous benefits that promote work-life balance.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Reduced cost public transport

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with relevant experience in Gynaecology.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Experience in initiating change within a team.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical care in nurse-led consultation clinics.
• Undertake outpatient ambulatory diagnostic hysteroscopy.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure quality care.

Skills

Expert clinical skills

Excellent communication skills

Proficient in venepuncture & cannulation

Administration of drugs

Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams

Education

Registered Nurse educated to Degree level

Teaching qualification

Hysteroscopy course completed

Job description

Main area Gynaecology Grade Band 7-8a (depending on experience) Contract 11 months (Fixed Term /Secondment until September 2026) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered) Job ref 180-E-257296

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Division E Town Cambridge Salary £47,810 - £62,682 p.a. pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59

Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Reproductive Medicine

Band 7-8a (depending on experience)

Job overview

We have a secondment / fixed term post available for a Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist for Reproductive Medicine and Hysteroscopy/Myosure to join our Gynaecology division within the Rosie Hospital.

You will provide expert clinical skills to a very busy nurse practitioner role supporting the Benign Gynaecology department undertaking outpatient ambulatory diagnostic hysteroscopy/myosure clinics and nurse‑led reproductive medicine consultation clinics including menstrual dysfunction, vaginal dilation and coil clinics.

This is a Monday to Friday role – 37.5 hours a week.

If you do not have the required qualifications to undertake hysteroscopy and myosure, consideration will be given to the applicant to undertake the secondment role focusing on diagnostic hysteroscopy (if already trained) and reproductive medicine consultation clinics as a Band 7.

If you think this is the opportunity for you, please do not hesitate to apply or contact for an informal conversation.

Main duties of the job

We are searching for an experienced Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist who is able to undertake excellent clinical care, providing nurse‑led reproductive medicine diagnostic and consultation clinics. You will be trained in diagnostic hysteroscopy and myosure in an outpatient ambulatory setting.

The successful candidate should be proficient in skills such as venepuncture & cannulation, drug administration and possess excellent communication and administrative skills. You will be working closely with the Multi‑disciplinary teams to ensure an excellent provision of evidence‑based care across Reproductive Medicine.

Working for our organisation

Come Nurse with us…

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the country. It comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital. We provide accessible high‑quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge and regional and national specialist services. It’s a great place to nurse, work and live.

You will work on a vibrant hospital campus with a friendly community feel; we have excellent facilities to practise your skills and abilities to support your career pathway and development. Our values of Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent support the delivery of outstanding care. We have a fully electronic patient record system that is improving health‑care quality; this is transforming services, improving patient safety and clinical outcomes.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

• Our values and reputation for outstanding care
• Opportunities to experience a range of specialities
• Career and development opportunities
• Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team
• Research experience and opportunities
• Lovely location and quality of life
• Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Please note:
• Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 28 December 2025

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 5 January 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.

Person specification

Band 7 Qualifications

• Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Teaching qualification.
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment
• Research Module.
• Supplementary Prescribing
• Masters Degree
• Hysteroscopy course completed and evidence of working as an independent practitioner.

Band 7 Experience

• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills including speculum examination.
• Accept personal accountability for own practice.
• Experience of formal/informal teaching.
• Experience of initiating change

Band 7 Knowledge

• Understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance.
• Understand of patient pathways its complexities and how to support the patient through this

Band 7 Skills

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Capable of working as an integral member of a small team.
• Adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues’ needs.
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
• Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload; effective time-management.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Ability to lead developments in practice.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
• Demonstrate analytical and judgemental skills.
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly including patient deterioration whilst undertaking procedures.
• Advanced communication skills.

Band 7 Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct.
• Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions.
• Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty – political and Trust.

Band 8a Qualifications

• Registered Nurse educated to Degree level
• Hysteroscopy course completed and evidence of working as an independent practitioner.
• Evidence of continuous professional development.
• Teaching and mentoring qualification.
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Advanced clinical assessment skills
• Supplementary Non‑medical Prescribing
• Research Module.
• Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake
• Masters Degree or willingness to undertake

Band 8a Experience

• Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills.
• Experience in project management.
• Experience of formal/informal teaching.
• Experience of leading service change
• Practice experience of policy development.
• Audit or research experience

Band 8a Knowledge

• Recognised as an expert in the field of practice with the ability to clinically assess and diagnose.
• Budget management.Complexities and how support the patient through this

Bnad 8a Skills

• Advances verbal and written communication skills.
• Effective communicator with proven ability to influence all levels of staff.
• Ability to work autonomously as an independent practitioner.
• Adaptable to changing situations due workload and colleagues’ needs.
• Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
• Proven Leadership and team‑leading Skills.
• Proven ability to manage and progress own professional development.
• Ability to lead developments in practice.
• Commitment to multidisciplinary working.Demonstrate analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly including patient deterioration whilst undertaking procedures.

Band 8a Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
• To act in a professional manner at all times in accordance with NMC Code of Conduct.
• Capable of developing liaisons with other practice areas/academic institutions.
• Highly motivated.
• Committed to continuous service development and quality improvement.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines and targets.
• Reliable and supportive.
• Ability to synthesise information, consider and evaluate risks and options when making difficult decisions
• Knowledge of broader issues related to specialty – political and Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Libby Brinkler Job title Deputy Head of Midwifery and Gynaecology Email address [e-mail]