Vacancies

Senior Specialist Nurse Practitioner

Main Responsibility

As a senior nurse, you will need to be dynamic, proactive and be an approachable member of our multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the safe and quality care is driving throughout of clinics.

We have dedicated, experienced, collaborative, and supportive Consultants, Doctors, Specialist Nurses, HCAs, management, admin, and reception teams working to deliver a warm and friendly service.

Key duties will include:

• Assess and deliver sexual health care for patients presenting with complex health needs from a specialist sexual health perspective and referral to medical treatment and other specialist provision if appropriate.
• Ensure the clinic operates with minimum delay for patients and provides the following according to local policies.
• Work with other health professionals in own and other trusts and outside agencies to improve the education and uptake of all methods of contraception, including LARC, to prevent unplanned pregnancy.
• To provide leadership by acting as a role model for other Clinical Practitioners and provide specialist up to date relevant information to other Health Professionals.
• To ‘act-up’ in the absence of the Nurse Manager.
• To act as an ‘Instructing Nurse’ / Mentor within the Service for nursing and medical staff and support students and other learners in achieving learning outcomes by providing a learning environment and opportunities.
• To mentor and assess nurses and other professionals from within and outside the service who require specialist training.
• Participate in education programmes delivered by the service including formal specialist teaching programmes for medical and nursing staff and outside agencies.
• Encourage a high level of safety within the working environment and ensure any risks are identified and reported to the most appropriate person as they arise.
• Deal with difficult situations in relation to Safeguarding Children / Vulnerable Adults and act according to local policy and current legislation.
• To undertake any other duties / training that may be required appropriate to the postholder’s position, experience, and competence.
• Take a comprehensive sexual / medical history to ensure clear, concise, and accurate clinical picture is obtained and appropriately recorded.
• Use expert knowledge and judgement to ensure clear and accurate clinical diagnosis of normal anatomy is obtained and recorded with the ability to identify differential diagnosis and refer on for further investigation or to specialist medical staff if and when appropriate.

The Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will:

• Be Registered Nurse or Midwife with live NMC Registration
• Have obtained the V300 NMP Certificate, working towards or wanting to work towards
• Completed their sexual health diploma
• 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
• Have Cytology training and competent to perform cervical cytology or working towards or wanting to work towards
• Have IUD (intrauterine device/system) fitter, or working towards sam or working towards or wanting to work towards

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

This role is open to candidates who Band 6s looking for a stepping up opportunity.

Non-Medical Prescribing is not essential but is desirable and that there is an opportunity to obtain the V300 NMP qualification.

For a full list of criteria please see attached job description

Package Description

As a Senior Specialist Nurse Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team in Chester!

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

• £43,742 - £46,148 (Band 7) Salary depending on experience and 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 

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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