Vacancies

Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse

Main Responsibility

As a Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse you will:

• Triage and support Sexual Health, Contraception and HIV positive patients.
• Support and manage patients accessing screening.
• Support HIV patients and escalate to the HIV MDT where required.
• Use and participate in the development and updating of Patient Group Directions (PGD’s)
• Be competent in Sexual Health and HIV promotion and education
• Work flexibly and be involved in Patient and Public Involvement (PPI)
• Enable patient choice and involvement.
• Issue treatments for sexually transmitted infections
• Provide STI/HIV screening and treatment and liaise with clients with positive results
• Provide advice and cytology screening as appropriate.
• Co-ordinate patient care pathways and liaise across organisational boundaries. 
• Plan specialised programmes of care and provide specialised advice
• Work collaboratively, maintaining effective communication with colleagues, other professionals, and agencies, to ensure patient needs are met

Training will be received if new to the field of sexual health nursing.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities for this role.

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration
• A newly qualified RGN or a Band 5 with experience in any field
• Experience working with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Experience working with Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• STIF Foundation is desirable
• Experience with Risk Management processes
• IT and clinical systems experience
• Knowledge of Patient record systems
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills both verbally and in writing
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Please see the attached person specification for a full list of requirements.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• Salary of £29,970 - £36,483 (Full time equivalent) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea and coffee 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 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

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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