Clinical Nurse Specialist in Early Pregnancy Care (F/T to Aug. 2025)

at  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist in Early Pregnancy Care
This is a fixed-term post until August 2025 to cover maternity leave.
A full-time Clinical Nurse Specialist position has become available within our Early Pregnancy Unit within Sonning Ward to cover maternity leave.
The post holder will work and be responsible for our Early Pregnancy Unit (EPU) to deliver an expert service to patients from initial consultation to discharge.
Applications for this post are invited from nurses who have had experience and are passionate about early pregnancy services.
We are looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking individual who is flexible, self-motivated, and reliable and a good team player and leader.
As a nurse specialist, the role of the post holder in early pregnancy care is to enhance the care for women who may be concerned in early pregnancy.
You will provide support for pregnancy loss, recurrent miscarriage and other complications of pregnancy such as molar and ectopic pregnancy.
The post holder will establish clear lines of communication with hospital and primary healthcare teams in order to increase knowledge and facilitate a unified approach to patient care.
You will contribute to the development of evidence based clinical nursing practice in line with current research and guidelines to improve the patient’s experience.
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E xcellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
An expert practitioner, providing leadership, management and education to enhance the care for women with complications in early pregnancy and emergency gynaecological conditions regardless of location within the Trust.
To manage a clinical caseload.
To be able to demonstrate advanced communication skills. Communicating with women, families and other healthcare professionals.
To provide safe, effective, compassionate women-centred care. To make a positive difference to the experience of women and their partners and/or family at a vulnerable and stressful time.
To provide support and counselling to women experiencing early pregnancy loss and be able to demonstrate evidence based use of all management options.
To act as the women’s advocate empowering women, as individuals, to make the right choices in managing pregnancy loss.
Develop and maintain collaborative working with both internal and external professionals. Ensuring delivery of best care.
To be responsible for the development and monitoring of standards and policies of clinical practice within the designated area.
To work with the clinical Lead to ensure service delivery meets national standards.
To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.
To ensure that accurate, legible records of patient care are kept and that are consistent with Trust professional and service guidelines.
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