Job Introduction
We are looking for an experienced and talented Sexual Health Nurse to join our The Sexual Health Hub, Chester team!
The Sexual Health Hub provides free and confidential sexual health services in the Cheshire West and Chester locality. Our services provide free information and advice on all types of contraception, STI testing and treatment and also HIV clinical care. We are a “Level 3” integrated contraception and sexual health (ICASH) service, combining the medical specialties of Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) and Community Sexual and Reproductive Health (cSRH).
We are looking for a band 6 Sexual Health Nurse to join us in providing our service to the local population of Chester and West Chester. This role will involve travel across Chester and West Chester to cover our community clinics meaning a driving license and access to a car is an essential criteria of this role.
You will work as an autonomous practitioner taking responsibility for day to day management of clinics and ensuring a timely, quality service is delivered. You will work collaboratively with colleagues and commissioners to develop services in line with commissioning and objectives.
This is a part-time position based at our Hub in Chester City Centre. You will ideally be a Registered General Nurse or Midwife who has ideally complete their sexual health diploma or have practice nurse experience.
Main Responsibility
Our vision is to empower all people living in Cheshire West and Chester to enjoy positive sexual health and wellbeing.
For more information please contact our Service Manager Bradley.Pearson-Barnard@hcrgcaregroup.com
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
- Have obtained the V300 NMP Certificate or working towards or wanting to work towards
- Ideally has 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 same
- 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 candidate who are not sexual health trained where we can consider a Band 5 or Band 6 training post instead.
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 part time Sexual Health Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team in Chester!
You will feel valued as a Sexual Health Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £35,392 - £42,618 (Band 6 AfC) 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.
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