Sexual Health Nurse, Band 6

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient care

- Demonstrate and promote a family centred style of clinical practice.

- Use motivational interviewing techniques to assess, and plan and offer a range of safe contraceptive options; deliver, evaluate and amend the plan. This will include clients with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies. Working as an autonomous practitioner with access to guidance from specialist sexual health services when necessary.

- To be responsible for the organisation of your own work and ensure effective time management. To assist the midwifery teams in administering contraception and offer support and guidance as required.

- To run satellite clinics providing postnatal contraception.

- To communicate with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to aid effective care, this will include taking an active role in team meetings.

- To communicate effectively with clients with potentially complex, sensitive or distressing circumstances. Patients may have communication, perceptual or cognitive/understanding difficulties.

- To maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards.

- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times

Professional practice

- Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to deliver and evidence based service.

- With supervision and direction from Team leader take on increased responsibility recognising own limitations and seeking help appropriately

- Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems.

- Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust

- Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model at all times

Leadership and management

- In conjunction with their manager, identify training needs of self.

- Report near misses and untoward incidents.

- Maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with lead staff.

- Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed.

- Act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements

- Under the direction of lead Midwife contribute to service development using quality improvement methodology.

Education and training

- To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies

- To support lead in providing training and education to midwifery staff

- Undertake all mandatory training

- Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centred care.

Improving quality and developing practice

- Comply with requirements to register and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.

- With support from your lead be involved in interpreting and understanding Audit data to conduct improvement initiatives.

- Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team both locally and nationally.

- Engage in clinical supervision

- Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines.

- Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.

- Undertake a QI project.

Person Specification

Qualification and Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/training
• DFSRH contraception and sexual health qualification
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/training
• DFSRH contraception and sexual health qualification
• FSRH LOC -insertion
• Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation

Desirable

• Level 3 safeguarding children training

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Able to prioritise own workload
• Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment.
• Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
• Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust's Values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
• Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
• Able to independently travel to work countywide

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate contribution to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines /audit relevant to area of practice.
• Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence practice relating to area of clinical practice, management, education and research.

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner
• Recent experience of working in contraception and sexual health
• Experience of working with patients who may have multiple complexes and safeguarding concerns.

Desirable

• Nurse prescriber qualification.
• Experience in undertaking Audit

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

Employer's website

https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)