Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Sexual Health Nurse to join our Bury, Town Side Primary Care team!
We are looking for a talented Band 5 or 6 Sexual Health Nurse to join us on apart-time contract for 30 hours a week.
In this role you would work within Sexual Health across Bury, Oldham and Rochdale to provide high quality nursing care for patients attending the service. You will deliver integrated sexual health provision to clients of all ages and from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds. You will work collaboratively with a highly skilled team to ensure effective and efficient clinical sessions.
As this role will involve travel to various locations across Bury, Oldham and Rochdale to provide cover, a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposeswill be essential criteria for this role.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Provide high quality integrated sexual and reproductive healthcare (SRH) and genito-urinary medicine (GUM)
- Assess contraceptive and safer sexual health needs to provide individualised advice and care
- Provide relevant teaching and demonstration regarding chosen methods of contraception.
- Provide relevant tests/screening, including microscopy, and treatments for sexually transmitted infections including HIV testing, Chlamydia Screening and immunisation for high-risk groups.
- Arrange appropriate referrals and liaise with both statutory and voluntary agencies for those patients identified as having social / emotional problems.
- Provide health promotion and education in one-to-one settings to clients from different social and educational and cultural backgrounds.
- Perform Cervical Screening, audit own results and to attend updates on cervical cytology
- Support effective Partner Notification to ensure contact(s) attendance and treatment of Index (patient), as detailed in Partner Notification Policy.
- Work towards the fitting of implants and IUDs (Intrauterine device/system)
- IssuePEPSE treatmentto service users who have been identified at risk ofacquiring the HIV infection, this may be via Independent Nurse Prescribing or PGD development.
- Usesupervisory skills to support learner nurses, doctors and post basic students working within the department.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description
About us
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were 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 doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Sexual Health Nurse, youll be part of our valued team at Bury, Town Side Primary Care team!
You will feel valued as a Sexual Health Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 or 6 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Our Ideal candidate will:
- Be a registered Nurse with live NMC registration
- Have experience as a Sexual Health Nurse
- 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.
- Have IUD (intrauterine device/system) fitter, or working towards same
A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposesis required for this position.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Sexual Health Nurse, youll be part of our valued team at Bury, Town Side Primary Care team!
You will feel valued as a Sexual Health Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Band 5 or 6 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 lifes 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 youre 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
Our Ideal candidate will:
- Be a registered Nurse with live NMC registration
- Have experience as a Sexual Health Nurse
- 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.
- Have IUD (intrauterine device/system) fitter, or working towards same
A full UK driving license and access to a vehicle for work purposesis required for this position.
Person Specification
General Requirements
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Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
