Vacancies

Sexual Health Nurse

Main Responsibility

As a Sexual Health Nurse you will work within the Integrated Sexual Health Service providing holistic care for individuals attending for contraception, screening and treatment of sexually transmitted infections in locality clinics and outreach provision across the borough of Rochdale.

• To have a key role in the delivery of contraception & sexual health services to the population within the borough and in provision of outreach services within the community.
• To work in all clinical areas and the role will include working independently within nurse delivered clinics as well as non health care venues and clients homes.
• The role will also include health education and promotion around contraception and sexually transmitted infections
•  To maintain, update and develop personal and professional knowledge within the guidance of performance reviews and clinical governance.
• Report all accidents, complaints or untoward incident to the clinic nurse manager 
• keep up to date with any relevant training and promote reflective practice.
• To take initial case histories and to keep accurate up-to-date medical records
• to provide specialised advice around contraception & sexual health and the best possible care to service users on an individual basis, to support clinical governance within the organisation.
• to issue treatment for sexually transmitted infections within the boundaries of Patient Group Directions.
• To be responsible for the initial and repeat issue of hormonal contraception within the boundaries of Patient Group Directions dependent on additional qualifications.

The Ideal Candidate

You will be a Registered Nurse with relevant experience in contraception and sexual health. 

We have built organisation-wide committees in many specialist fields. You’ll have the option to join your clinical specialism, networking with professionals from across the country. We get together regularly, auditing and sharing standard methodology for innovation and service re-design. You’ll be a part of the pool of subject matter experts bringing together clinical and operational leads. You will be a part of quality improvements, research and development activity. Here we recognise and celebrate clinical excellence and dedication.

You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.

Package Description

You will receive Band 5 / 6  salary ( Dependant on experience ) terms and conditions including an NHS pension 

As well as AfC terms and conditions, you’ll have access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Laptop  enabling fantastic flexible working patterns that can help you lead a perfect work/life balance
• 27 - 33 days annual leave + eight days general public holiday
• MyWellness – a health and lifestyle platform covering mental health awareness and support, healthy recipes & activity challenges and 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
• Access to Reward Gateway - our staff benefits scheme which grants you access to premium offers and discounts on practical spending at national supermarkets and well known retailers as well as special treats like Virgin Experience Days and Leisure Vouchers 
• We are 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.
• Access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills, bespoke career pathways and 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
• Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards with 100% of our rated services considered overall good or outstanding by 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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