Job overview

Working Full time 37.5 hours per week

The Women and Children’s Division are excited to offer this newly created role of Nurse Consultant in Gynaecology. This is an exciting opportunity to come and join us in our new W&C hospital opening in Summer 2025 to lead and develop our Gynae outpatient services. As a consultant nurse you will lead gynaecology clinics and perform procedures within a Gynae specialist area to include rapid access services.

The post holder will work as an independent consultant practitioner delivering a comprehensive service to patients, employing a high degree of personal and professional autonomy demonstrating highly advanced clinical expertise, competence, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in all aspects of clinical care. It is expected as a consultant Gynae nurse there will be a key specialist area which will include rapid access, EPAU, colposcopy or hysteroscopy. The role has a strong leadership and service development component. The post holder will contribute to the clinical and strategic direction for the development of the service within the new Gynae outpatient department and will be a key member of the senior clinical and management team, providing senior leadership and influencing organisational initiatives related to the specialist area. 

Main duties of the job

The Nurse Consultant will work as part of the Gynaecology outpatient team, working within their scope of practice and specialist areas. They will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care, which may include highly complex disease presentation.
The Nurse Consultant will take responsibility for leading and strategically developing the Gynaecology Cancer Service and manage the rapid assessment service for suspected Gynaecology cancers and support delivery of the faster diagnosis standard for the Trust.
The Nurse Consultant will act as a clinical expert and professional resource to the multi-professional team, patients, and carers within their specialist service. They will liaise and collaborate with colleagues in the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care, prioritising, and utilising evidence-based best practice. Working autonomously, the Nurse Consultant will utilise their advanced clinical expertise to develop and implement Gynaecology clinical pathways in line with national guidance and deliver appropriate interventions.

Working for our organisation

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.