Junior Sister/Clinical Nurse Specialist

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Swindon seeks a Junior Sister for a full-time role in the Women's Health Outpatient department. You will support the manager while leading a team and functioning as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in urogynaecology. Responsibilities include undertaking clinics, managing team activities, and ensuring evidence-based practice. This role suits an RGN with substantial experience and a commitment to patient care. Specialization in bladder conditions and pessary management is preferred. Strong communication skills and a service-oriented approach are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in urogynaecology-related nursing.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant for Band 6 post.
• Willing to undertake NMP qualification.

Responsibilities

• Support the manager in daily operations.
• Lead a team of nurses and health care assistants.
• Undertake clinics for managing pelvic organ prolapse.

Skills

Communication skills

Interagency awareness

Teaching self catheterisation

Education

Degree and postgraduate diploma

RGN with post qualification experience

Job description

The closing date is 06 January 2026

Working full time in a busy Women’s Health Outpatient department in a dual role as Junior Sister supporting the manager in the day to day running of the department and leading a team of nurses and health care assistants. You will also be a Clinical Nurse Specialist in urogynaecology undertaking clinics to treat and manage pelvic organ prolapse and chronic bladder conditions. You will be an active member of the multidisciplinary team within urogynaecology attending continence and pelvic floor disorder multidisciplinary team meetings.

Supporting the managerial day to day running of women's health outpatients including facilitating appraisals, roster allocation, dealing with complaints, recruitment and attending meetings such as governance, FASS divisional, rota check, safety huddles, IP&C and departmental.

As the Clinical Nurse Specialist in Urogynaecology you will undertake clinics in pessary management, bladder instillations and percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation. Answering questions and concerns raised via email to the urogynaecology email help box. Ensuring you are competent and up-to-date with practices and evidence based practice, you will also undertake audits of the services you provide and help maintain urogynaecology patient information leaflets. Working alongside consultants and the advanced clinical practitioner to advance services and treatments relating to urogynaecology.

Main duties of the job

You will be trained to support consultants, registrars, the nurse consultant and advanced clinical practitioner in procedural clinics such as minor ops, colposcopy, outpatient hysteroscopy and urodynamic studies. As the junior sister supporting the department manager, you will form part of the management team for the Family and Specialist Services division working closely with the matron and performance and operations manager.

You will be willing to work in varying roles to ensure smooth daily running of clinics and ready to stand in for the manager where necessary. You will be punctual and perform your duties in a professional manner that reflects your commitment, reliability and dedication to the department and urogynaecology team to uphold the good reputation of the organisation.

About us

Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.

Job responsibilities

Currently a weekday role you will share evening clinics with the advanced clinical practitioner and department manager.

As the Junior Sister you will be working within a friendly and approachable nursing team that is passionate about women's health and motivated in providing the best care for women. The women's health outpatients department hosts specialists such as physiotherapists, midwives, sonographers and phlebotomists as well as the consultants and registrars involved in gynaecology and obstetrics. We support medical students in their educational experiences as well us the junior doctors on their rotation within gynaecology and obstetrics.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• RGN with reasonable length of post qualification experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant for Band 6 post.
• Willing to undertake NMP qualification
• Degree and postgraduate diploma
• Bladder disorder &/or disease
• Vaginal pessary management
• NMR capable

Experience

• An awareness of interagency working / functions.
• Communication skills, which facilitate effective interaction with people from a wide range of social, economic, cultural, and ethnic/racial backgrounds.
• Able to communicate with a wide range of colleagues in different disciplines and agencies.
• The ability to respond to the demands of working in a complex and diverse environment.
• Able to produce accurate reports.
• Related nursing experience in Urogynaecology
• Vaginal pessary management
• PTNS experience
• Teaching clean intermittent self catheterisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust