Vacancies

National Sexual Health - Clinical Lead

Main Responsibility

• Strategic Vision: Develop and implement a comprehensive national sexual health strategy that addresses pressing issues, identifies gaps in services, and promotes evidence-based solutions.
• Policy Advocacy: Collaborate with policymakers at all levels to influence legislative changes that improve access to sexual health services, foster education, and reduce stigma.
• Clinical Guidance: Provide expert clinical guidance to healthcare providers, ensuring best practices in sexual health care delivery, prevention, and treatment.
• Research and Innovation: Stay abreast of cutting-edge research and technology in sexual health, identifying opportunities for innovation and advocating for necessary resources.
• Education and Awareness: Lead efforts to educate the public on sexual health, emphasizing the importance of regular testing, safe practices, and open dialogue.
• Collaboration: Foster strong partnerships with stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, community organizations, educators, and researchers, to create a unified approach to sexual health.

Requirements:

• Medical Expertise: A distinguished medical background in sexual health or related fields, with significant experience in clinical practice and research.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and inspire teams, drive change, and build consensus among diverse stakeholders.
• Advocacy Experience: Track record in advocating for policy changes and successfully influencing decision-makers at local, regional, or national levels.
• Innovation: Demonstrated interest in staying current with emerging trends, technologies, and approaches in sexual health.
• Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex ideas in a clear and accessible manner.

The Ideal Candidate

Knowledge Experience and Training

• Management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV 
• Contraception, sexual and reproductive health 
• Knowledge and principles of resource and budget management 
• Understanding importance of clinician in management 

Qualifications

• Basic medical qualification registrable in UK 
• Entry on the GMC specialist register for Genitourinary Medicine or equivalent via:
• CCT (proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of interview)
• CESR or European community rights 
• Other approved method of entry 
• MRCP, MRCOG or equivalent

Other Requirements

• Willingness to work flexibly to support the needs of the service.
• Ability to travel.

Package Description

As our National Sexual Health Clinical Lead, you’ll be part of our valued team:

• £30,000 per annum (30 sessions per year)
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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 are 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.

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, di-verse 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 every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. 
• Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.