Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing - Abortion Services
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Shift pattern: Wednesday 10:00-18:00 & Thursday 08:30-16:30)
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week (May be asked to work across site.)
- Job ref
- 387-MED6812-JJ
- Employer
- Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Central Health Clinic
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Pregnancy Advisory Nurse
Band 6
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Job overview
An exiting opportunity has become available for a Band 6 Nurse or Midwife to work in the Pregnancy Advisory Service (PAS) at the Central Health Clinic and WISH clinic.
PAS is a Nurse delivered, Consultant covered, service based at the Central Health Clinic and WISH. The role involves patient consultations, ultrasound scanning, informal counselling, sexual health screening, giving contraception advice and consenting for abortions.
May include some evenings & travel to Weston General Hospital.
Observation shift recommended prior to application/interview - please contact to arrange.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a full range of nursing skills within the Pregnancy Advisory Service. This may include evenings.
- Provide a confidential and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services including use of Fraser Guidelines.
- Administer and / or issue prescribed medication as appropriate following NMC professional guidelines, working from PGDs or Non-Medical Prescribing as appropriate.
- Use professional judgement to seek advice or refer to medical colleagues.
- Be aware of and adhere to NMC, Trust and Directorate policies and procedures.
- Adhere to departmental protocols, procedures and guidelines for clinical care in order to ensure that a high standard of care is delivered to all service users.
- Perform testing, obtain swabs and specimens as appropriate and provide advice and information to patients regarding cervical cytology.
- Provide health promotion relevant to patient needs.
- Promote sexual health and in particular advise about the transmission of sexually transmitted infections and ways of reducing those risks.
- Undertake pregnancy tests and refer to and liaise with other professionals as appropriate, providing pre pregnancy advice and information as required.
- Perform ultrasound scanning to confirm pregnancy and gestation (following in-house training).
- Participate in and run nurse led clinics, and be able to use professional judgement to seek advice or refer to medical colleagues or other agencies.
Working for our organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Interest in and commitment to providing safe abortion care
- Relevant post-registration nursing or Midwifery experience
- Up to date knowledge and experience of working in a sexual health/contraception/abortion/Gynaecological service
- Experience of instruction and assessing in clinical practice i.e. supporting students and new staff members
- Experience of working with all age groups, genders and sexualities
- Experience of safeguarding patients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading or managing a team
- Ultra sound scanning experience in first and second stage trimester
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse / 1st Level Registration
- Current NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in Teaching, Assessing and Mentoring
- Recognised Contraception and Sexual Health Course (Diploma of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive healthcare)
- FSRH Letter of Competence in Insertion and removal of Subdermal Implants SDI
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly effective verbal and written communication and negotiation skills - to staff, patients and relatives, including in situations of conflict or distress
- Strong organisational skills - prioritising complex situations
- Skills in caseload management and record keeping
- Demonstrates the ability to lead and influence change
- Demonstrates an ability to take overall responsibility and accountability
- Flexibility, adaptability to meet the needs of a changing service
- Demonstrates an ability to act as facilitator, mentor and supervisor to colleagues
- Information technology skills: including MS Word; Outlook; MS Excel; MS Powerpoint
- Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
- Demonstrates an ability to be flexible, autonomous and show initiative
- Innovative
- Demonstrates a non-judgement attitude
- A good team player
- Willingness to complete in-house USS training programme if not completed elsewhere
Public Sector Language Competency
Essential criteria
- Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Ferguson and Abigail Russell
- Job title
- Lead Nurses, Pregnancy Advisory Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01173426824
- Additional information
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