Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Outreach Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682.00- £46,580.00(Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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 the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job Introduction
We are seeking a passionate and dedicated Band 6 Sexual Health Outreach Nurse, to join our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Service, across our 4 sites in Coventry, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Rugby.
Within this role, you will provide and monitor clinical outreach services through effective and collaborative partnership working, ensuring that the sexual health needs of the Coventry and Warwickshire community are met. This will particularly focus on individuals at higher risk and those from hard-to-reach groups, including BAME communities, young people, LGBTQ+ individuals, substance misusers, sex workers, victims of domestic and/or sexual violence or exploitation, people with physical disabilities, learning disabilities, learning difficulties and autism, individuals experiencing homelessness, and newly arrived or displaced populations such as asylum seekers and refugees. You will work closely with key stakeholders including MIND, Turnaround, CGL, The Haven, and other Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations to deliver accessible and inclusive services.
The role will involve working both in clinic settings and in outreach environments, including visiting service users in the community to provide high-quality, person-centred care.
This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week, worked across five days, with evening and occasional weekend work required. A full driving licence is essential to enable travel between clinic sites and community locations.
Main Responsibilities
- Working as an expert practitioner within the outreach setting in a dual trained contraception and sexual health provision capacity
- Focus and lead on specific area (to be agreed) in improving access and clinical care for marginalised and hard to reach groups (sex workers and homeless including drug and alcohol services, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, Young Persons and working closely with Voluntary services)
- Supporting the Outreach Lead Nurse in developing and implementing an outreach plan for sexual health services in Coventry and Warwickshire, in line with national and local priorities and local datasets and any partnership working with the Strategic Lead.
- Be a key part in the transformation of the sexual health system over the lifetime of the contract in relation to outreach provision and key relationships with the wider service and stakeholders.
- Working collaboratively with the Strategic Lead and Public Health teams to ensure alignment with the Health Protection Strategy and other health promotion initiatives.
- Supporting the Outreach Lead Nurse by working cohesively with the Strategic Lead, who will guide and support the identification of any key areas of potential focus for clinical outreach provision to drive improvements in sexual health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and building relationships.
- Identifying and addressing the clinical sexual health needs of hard-to-reach groups and areas with high levels of sexual health issues and developing and agreeing provision required.
Please see job description attached for full list of responsibilities
Ideal Candidate
- Registered General Nurse
- FSRH Diploma or equivalent (CPD 326/327 Qualification)
- Letter of competency and experience in Implant
- Completed BASHH “STIF Intermediate Competency” or willing to work towards
- Experience of team working
- Effectively manage time and workload to ensure that both clinical and managerial responsibilities are met in line with the needs of the service.
- Ability to write reports
- Must be flexible in regard to evenings and weekends in accordance to the needs of the service including clinic outreach and spoke venues.
- Driving licence and access to vehicle
- Demonstrate the application of evidenced based practice.
- Able to demonstrate a depth and breadth of current issues and policies within the organisation and have the ability to translate into practice.
While not essential, it would be desirable for the candidate to hold Qualification Independent Nurse Prescriber certification and have experience in Outreach Sexual Health, particularly working with hard-to-reach communities. A willingness to undertake training for IUD/IUS insertion is also preferred, along with possession of a teaching and mentoring qualification or a commitment to complete relevant training.
Please see job description attached for full list.
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.
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