Vacancies

Sexual Health Nurse

Main Responsibility

•   Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights, and treat others with dignity and respect ensuring services are developed, managed and delivered to meet the specific needs of minority groups.
•   To ensure confidentiality at all times. 
•   To be familiar with and to comply with policies and procedures, which are available in each department. 
•   To adhere to the organisation’s infection control policy and be recognised as Link Infection Control Nurse or assist those who are identified.
•   To promote a risk management culture within your working environment and ensuring participation and involvement of all staff, in line with the organisation’s risk management strategy and policies.
•   To identify potential risks that may impact on the organisation’s ability to achieve its objectives, including details of risk likelihood, severity and impact, and record these details in the appropriate system.
•   Health & Safety is the responsibility of all staff and the post holder is required to take due care at work, report any accidents or untoward occurrences and comply with the organisational Health & Safety Policy in order that it can fulfil its Health and Safety responsibilities.
•   To ensure that patients, clients and members of the public are consulted and involved in decisions about local health service developments.  You should be mindful of this and do what you can, as appropriate to your role and level of responsibility, to meet this duty.
•   To be aware of internal and external targets to achieve in respect of service delivery and improving and progressing patient care, and contribute and work to achieve them.
• To assist with the organisations Audit programme and with any external audits following a reasonable request.
• Participate in annual appraisal scheme and, depending on experience, appraise other members of the team.
• To provide health promotion and education in one to one settings to clients from different social and educational and cultural backgrounds.
• Following training perform Cervical Screening, audit own results and to attend updates on cervical cytology as per training programme.
• Support effective Partner Notification to ensure contact(s) attendance and treatment of Index (patient), as detailed in Partner Notification Policy.
• Following appropriate training work towards the fitting of implants and IUDs (Intrauterine device/system)
• Following appropriate training issue PEPSE treatment to those service users who have been identified at risk of acquiring the HIV infection, this may be via Independent Nurse Prescribing or PGD development.
• Willing to undergo any further training that will enhance service delivery and aid improved outcomes for our service users.
• To work within nurse led clinical sessions and issue prescription-only medicines/treatments in accordance with local care pathways and Patient Group Directions, and in accordance with the NMC Administration of Medicines Guidelines and NMC Code.

Please see Job Description for Full Responsibilities 

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered first level nurse
• Integrated contraception /sexual health qualification, or working towards same
• Letters of competence in subdermal implants (LoC SDI)
• Knowledge of working to patient group directions and associated policy or
• Cytology training and competent to perform cervical cytology.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Motivated and enthusiastic with excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work unsupervised.
• Forward thinking, well organised with a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.
• IT skills
• Willing to train towards new skills.
• Flexibility
• Enthusiasm
• Car drive and own transport required.

Desirable

• Sub-dermal contraceptive implant fitter or working towards same
• IUD (intrauterine device/system) fitter, or working towards same
• Mentor/teaching qualification
• Experience of teaching and mentorship in a clinical setting
• Independent Nurse Prescribing Qualification

Other requirements: A DBS check will apply to this role

Package Description

As a Sexual Health Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team at The Live Well Centre, Middlesbrough .

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

•  Banding 6 depending on experience with group pension / NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions – edit as appropriate}
• 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 

*The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with of our most 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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