Gynaecology Practice Nurse

Job summary
Gynaecology Practice Nurse
Base: Various sites around Buckinghamshire.
Salary: From £22- £26 per hour dependant on experience
Working hours: 4 - 8 hours per week, currently covering Tuesday and Thursday sessions

Main duties of the job
Working under the supervision of the Gynaecology lead or appropriate clinicians and strictly in accordance with specific practice guidelines and protocols.

Practice Nurse will work in collaboration with clinicians and other members of the healthcare team to provide medical care and treatment in gynaecology clinic settings.

About us
FedBucks is GP federation composed of 45 GP practices and covering a population of over 485,000 patients across Buckinghamshire. Our journey began in 2016 when we jointly won the Buckinghamshire out of hours and urgent treatment centre contract as part of the Buckinghamshire Provider Collaborative. We are a key member of the Buckinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership.

As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable. Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier live whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Details
Date posted: 08 June 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: £22 to £26 an hour
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Part-time,
Flexible working
Reference number: E0093-26-0033
Job locations: Fedbucks Ltd, Summerleys Road, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9LE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Assess patient condition and provide treatment using specialised medical equipment
• Insert pessary after assessing the patient
• Insert Mirena Coil after assessing the patient
• Difficult Smear taking
• Performing physical exams and observing women
• Recording a patients medical histories and symptoms
• Consulting with doctors and other healthcare professionals
• Escalation or onward referral, when required, to senior members of the team or to secondary care as appropriate.
• Follows established guidelines and protocols
• Surgical equipment and consumables re-stocking and stock rotation
• Overseeing, clearing and re-stocking consulting rooms
• Preparing and maintaining environments and equipment before, during and after patient care interventions.
• Helping to raise awareness of health and well-being and how it can be promoted
• Be competent to gain patient consent prior to intimate examinations and documentation of consent.
• Assisting with the collection and collation of data on needs related to health and well-being
• Completing of Incident reports when required
• Participate in clinical audit when required.
• Any additional and reasonable duties asked by the Management

Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients. They may also have access to information relating to the federation as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patients, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the federation policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety
The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the federations Health & Safety policy, the Health & Safety manual, and the Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

• Awareness of personal security systems within the workplace according to guidelines
• Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines
• Responsible for the correct and safe management of the specimens process, including collection, labelling, handling, use of correct and clean containers, storage and transport arrangements
• Responsible for hand hygiene across the primary care service division
• Active observation of current working practices across the federation in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process.
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills across the full range of infection control and patient processes.
• Safe management of sharps procedures storage and disposal.
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
• Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers
• Undertaking annual infection control training.
• Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection.
• Understanding of spillage control procedures.
• Maintenance of sterile environments.
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and be aware of local referral processes and guidelines.

Equality and diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with federation procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional development
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the federation as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the federation, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:
The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and clinicians.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
The post-holder will:

• Apply federation policies, standards and guidance.
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work.
• Participate in audit where appropriate.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in Primary Care in a GP Practice
• Masters degree or bachelors degree in nursing
• Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner (CRNP)
• Must hold current licence / registration to practice (RN)

Desirable

• Working at Womens Health clinic

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered nurse with a current NMC registration
• Qualification in contraception & sexual health and a current smear taker.

Skills and Knowledge
Essential

• Competent in vaginal speculum examinations
• Competent to perform Cervical screening (smears)
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and discretion

Desirable

• Dealing with patient Complaints and DATIX forms
• EMIS System knowledge
• Pessary insertion

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details: FedBucks Ltd, Address: Fedbucks Ltd, Summerleys Road, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9LE, United Kingdom. Employer's website: https://www.fedbucks.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab). For questions about the job, contact: People Partner Julie McGraw at bht.hrprimarycare.fedbucks@nhs.net.