We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Sexual Health Nurse to join our team based at Lawson Street Health Centre, Stockon-on-Tees.
In this role you would work within Sexual Health across Teesside to provide high quality nursing care for patients attending the service. You will deliver integrated sexual health provision to clients of all ages and from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds. You will work collaboratively with a highly skilled team to ensure effective and efficient clinical sessions.
As this role will involve travel to various locations across Teesside to provide cover, a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes will be essential criteria for this role.
This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week).
Interviews for this post will be held on 21st June 2024.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team working within our Teesside Sexual Health Service, based at Lawson Street Health Centre.
You will feel valued as a Sexual Health Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
£35,392 - £42, 618 annual salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
Main ResponsibilitiesYou will:
Provide high quality integrated sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) and genito-urinary medicine (GUM)
Assess contraceptive and safer sexual health needs to provide individualised advice and care
Provide relevant teaching and demonstration regarding chosen methods of contraception.
Provide relevant tests/screening, including microscopy, and treatments for sexually transmitted infections including HIV testing, Chlamydia Screening and immunisation for high-risk groups.
Arrange appropriate referrals and liaise with both statutory and voluntary agencies for those patients identified as having social / emotional problems.
Provide health promotion and education in one-to-one settings to clients from different social and educational and cultural backgrounds.
Perform Cervical Screening, audit own results and to attend updates on cervical cytology
Support effective Partner Notification to ensure contact(s) attendance and treatment of Index (patient), as detailed in Partner Notification Policy.
Work towards the fitting of implants and IUDs (Intrauterine device/system)
Issue PEPSE treatment to service users who have been identified at risk of acquiring the HIV infection, this may be via Independent Nurse Prescribing or PGD development.
Use supervisory skills to support learner nurses, doctors and post basic students working within the department.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal CandidateOur Ideal candidate will:
Be a registered Nurse with live NMC registration
Have experience as a Sexual Health Nurse
Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Be Motivated and enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal skills
Have an Integrated contraception /sexual health qualification, or working towards same
Have Sub-dermal contraceptive implant fitter or working towards same
Have Cytology training and competent to perform cervical cytology.
Have IUD (intrauterine device/system) fitter, or working towards same
A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposes is required for this position.
About The Company
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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