Vacancies

Bank Specialist Sexual Health Nurse

Main Responsibility

Our vision is to empower all people living in Cheshire West and Chester to enjoy positive sexual health and wellbeing.  

As a Sexual Health Nurse you will:

• Work autonomously to manage your own caseload of patients whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Issue methods of contraception and treatments for sexually transmitted infections according to Patient Group Directions & clinical protocols 
• Insert and remove contraceptive implants and remove intrauterine devices (Fitting IUS/IUDs is desirable but not essential)
• Provide STI/HIV screening and treatment according to Patient Group Directions & clinical protocols
• Liaise with clients with positive results to enable a management plan of care for the client and partners.
• Provide advice and cytology screening as appropriate
• Enable patient choice and involvement and initiate appropriate action.

• Co-ordinate patient care pathway and liaise across organisational boundaries. 
• Plan specialised programmes of care and provide specialised advice to patients, partners, carers and family.
• Ensure each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway
• Provides clinical advice and support to healthcare professionals
• Provides clinical advice in accordance with current evidence-based practice.
• Ensure patients, partners, carers, and family, are given appropriate oral and written information regarding planned care.
• Maintain accurate patient records and ensure all relevant information is documented in the patient’s medical and nursing records.

For a full list of responsibilities please see attached job description

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be Registered Nurse or Midwife with live NMC Registration
• Experience in a sexual health setting
• 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 or working towards or wanting to work towards

A driving license and access to a car are an essential criteria.

For a full list of criteria please see attached job description.

Package Description

As a bank Sexual Health Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Chester!

As well as the attractive hourly rates of pay, at HCRG Care Group you will benefit from:

• Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
• Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
• HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
• Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
• Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
• Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
• Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
• Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
• Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
• 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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