Sexual Health Nurse

Job summary

Do you have a passion for sexual health and HIV?

Solent NHS Trust has recently been awarded the new contract to provide Sexual Health and HIV Services across Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and we are looking for some with a passion for Sexual Health and HIV to join our team. You will assess individual client needs and provide advice on sexual health and all methods of Contraception within a variety of settings, as directed by the management team. As part of the nursing team you will work within standard operating procedures and will receive full training to ensure evidence-based practices are followed. You will issue first time and repeat hormonal and emergency contraception and treatment for sexually transmitted infections working to Patient Group Directions or as an independent prescriber.

We are a busy Level 3 integrated, open access Sexual Health and HIV Service. The role is based on the Isle of Wight which has clinics running Monday to Friday. We operate a hub and spoke model of care to provide a full sexual health assessment, examinations, screening, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections along with assessing and provided contraception. We are digitally innovative; patient focused and continually strive for service-wide quality improvement.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a recognised post registration qualification in contraception and Sexual Health at degree or diploma level to be recruited into the band 6 role. If you have no contraception and sexual health experience we may be able to offer you a band 5 developmental sexual health nurse role instead. Band 5 developmental sexual health nurses will need to complete the required diploma which we can support you with, please be aware this can take up to 18 months to complete.

The successful candidate will have skills to include, excellent communication skills, written and verbal, IT Literate -- competent use of Microsoft word, excel, outlook and Power Point as a minimum, ability to adapt to change within work situation, time management skills, working independently with minimal support, presentation/teaching experience, good interpersonal skills, ability to relate to clients with differing cultural beliefs, promote a positive approach to diversity and equality of opportunity, promote a culture which respects and values diversity, and support patients, visitors and staff in exercising their rights, willing to work within the unplanned pregnancy service, ability to work as part of a close-knit team, self motivated, self starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme, being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.