Womens Health Enhanced Practice Nurse

Drake Medical Alliance Primary Care Network; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A primary care network in Plymouth is seeking a Womens Health Enhanced Practice Nurse to lead and expand womens health services. The role includes providing advanced clinical care, education, and leadership while working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams. Candidates must be registered nurses with NMC and have relevant postgraduate qualifications. This position offers flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering womens health services in primary care or sexual health settings.
• Fitting/removing coils and implants, or willingness to complete FSRH Letters of Competence.
• Experience in service leadership, teaching, or clinical supervision.

Responsibilities

• Increase access to womens health services, including coils and cervical screening.
• Provide clinical leadership to nursing teams across the DMA for womens health.
• Deliver advanced womens health services and manage complex cases.

Skills

Ability to work without direct supervision

Ability to work well in an integrated and multi-skilled team

Ability to work well under pressure

Ability to self-motivate and organise workload

Education

Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Level 7 postgraduate qualification in Womens Health or Advanced Clinical Practice

Job description

Overview

Drake Medical Alliance Primary Care Network – Womens Health Enhanced Practice Nurse

The closing date is 09 November 2025

The Womens Health Enhanced Practice Nurse will lead and expand womens health services across the DMA, delivering advanced clinical care, education, and leadership in line with the Network Contract DES 2025/26 Section B18.

Responsibilities

• Increase access to womens health services, including coils, implants, HRT, and cervical screening recall and uptake.
• Support QOF and IIF performance through improved prevention and early detection.
• Provide clinical leadership to nursing teams across the DMA for womens health.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to enhance the overall general practice offering for womens health.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Practice

• Deliver advanced womens health services, including:
• Coil (IUD/IUS) fittings and removals
• Contraceptive implant fittings and removals
• Cervical screening (smears)
• Sexual and reproductive health consultations
• Undertake complex clinical assessments and develop care plans for womens health needs.
• Apply enhanced clinical knowledge and evidence-based techniques to manage complex cases.
• Prescribe medications (if qualified) and advise on hormonal treatments.
• Work across all DMA practices to provide equitable access to womens health services.
• Participate in clinical audits and quality improvement (QI) projects related to womens health.
• Support audit and practice pathways to identify and contact non-responders including lapsed cervical screenings.

About us

Drake Medical Alliance Limited is the incorporated vehicle for DMA PCN to employ ARRS and other staff under a standardised set of Terms and Conditions. It is owned and operated by the 5 GP Practices that make up DMA PCN.

Person Specification

Other Requirements

• Ability to work without direct supervision and use own initiative
• Ability to work well in an integrated and multi-skilled team
• Ability to work well and remain calm under pressure
• Ability/willingness to travel to other sites to work during work hours when necessary
• Ability to self-motivate, organise and prioritise own workload.
• Flexibility of working hours/ability to attend meetings or training as required

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Level 7 postgraduate qualification in an area relevant to enhanced practice (e.g. Womens Health, Advanced Clinical Practice, Public Health, or Long-Term Condition Management).

Experience

• Proven experience delivering womens health services in primary care or sexual health settings.
• Fitting/removing coils and implants, or willingness to complete FSRH Letters of Competence.
• Evidence of working at enhanced practice level, per the Primary Care and General Practice Nursing Career Framework
• Trained cervical sample taker.
• Experience in service leadership, teaching, or clinical supervision.
• Experience in QI and data reporting (QOF, IIF, audits).

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.

Drake Medical Alliance Primary Care Network

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours