Job summary
Make a Difference Where It Matters Most
Are you passionate about deliveringinclusive, person-centred sexual health care? Do you thrive in fast-paced, innovative environments? Are you motivated by reaching people who need healthcare the most?
Join our Integrated Sexual Health Service, where youll combine clinical expertise within our clinical hubs across Leicestershire & Rutland, with meaningful outreachproviding high-quality care to some of the most vulnerable and high-risk groups in our communities.
This is more than a clinic-based post. As well as working within our sexual health hubs, its an opportunity to take sexual health expertise INTO the community: working with people who face the greatest barriers to accessing care, and ensuring they aresupported, empowered, and protected.
Main duties of the job
Why This Role Is Unique
A Clinical & Outreach Blend
You will work autonomously as an expert sexual health nurse, delivering specialist interventions both inside clinic and out in the community. Your work may include:
- Targeted outreach to high-risk groups (e.g., people experiencing homelessness, young people, sex workers, migrants, victims of exploitation).
- Leading nurse-led clinics, working across sites, and supporting the wider MDT to ensure smooth, safe service delivery.
Your clinicalautonomywill include STI/HIV screening and treatment, contraception management (including IUD/implant insertion and removal following training), PGD use, triage, health promotion, complex case management and participation in MDTs and safeguarding processes.
You will play a key role in shaping how the service evolvescontributing to service development, audit, policy updates, and evidence-based practice improvements.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of responsibilities for this role.
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
Why Work in Loughborough?
Loughborough is a thriving university town with a vibrant, diverse community that makes sexual health both meaningful and rewarding. It offers:
- A central hub for the countys sexual health activity.
- Excellent transport links (great for commuting from Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham).
- A strong community feel, with varied cultural, student, and local populations.
- Access to beautiful green spaces like Beacon Hill, Bradgate Park and the Charnwood countrysideperfect for worklife balance.
Why Choose Leicestershire & Rutland?
If you are relocating or seeking a new area to build your career, our region offers an exceptional quality of life:
- Affordable livingcompared to many UK counties.
- Great schools and family-friendly towns and villages.
- A mix of rural beauty and urban convenience, from the market towns of Rutland to the buzz of Leicester city.
- Rich cultural heritage, independent food scenes, festivals, and historic landmarks.
- Easy access to the rest of the UK, with major road and rail links on your doorstep.
Leicestershire and Rutland offer the perfect balance: a welcoming, down-to-earth region with all the amenities you needbut none of the overwhelming pace.
What Youll Bring
- NMC registration and experience as a Sexual Health Nurse
- STIF Intermediate and DFRSH training (or willingness to complete).
- Strong autonomous clinical practice and decision-making skills.
- Experience or passion for working with vulnerable or high-risk groups.
- A drive for continuous improvement and innovation in sexual health.
- The ability to lead, support, and influence across the nursing team.
- A commitment to evidence-based practice, clinical governance, and excellent patient care.
- Non-medical prescriberorexperienced user of PGDs in a non-clinical environment.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Please see the attached person specification for a full list of requirements.
What We Offer
- A supportive, passionate multidisciplinary team who value your contribution.
- Opportunities for continual professional development and dual-training maintenance.
- The chance to take a leading role in shaping forward-thinking sexual health provision.
- A role that offers both variety and meaningful impact every single day.
Join Us
If you want a role where your clinical skills genuinely change livesboth in clinic and out in the communitythis is the opportunity for you.Join us in creating a sexual health service that is dynamic, inclusive, compassionate, and truly accessible to all.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Leicestershire and Rutland Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682.00-£46,580.00 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shoppingas 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
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job description
Job responsibilities
Why Work in Loughborough?
Loughborough is a thriving university town with a vibrant, diverse community that makes sexual health both meaningful and rewarding. It offers:
- A central hub for the countys sexual health activity.
- Excellent transport links (great for commuting from Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham).
- A strong community feel, with varied cultural, student, and local populations.
- Access to beautiful green spaces like Beacon Hill, Bradgate Park and the Charnwood countrysideperfect for worklife balance.
Why Choose Leicestershire & Rutland?
If you are relocating or seeking a new area to build your career, our region offers an exceptional quality of life:
- Affordable livingcompared to many UK counties.
- Great schools and family-friendly towns and villages.
- A mix of rural beauty and urban convenience, from the market towns of Rutland to the buzz of Leicester city.
- Rich cultural heritage, independent food scenes, festivals, and historic landmarks.
- Easy access to the rest of the UK, with major road and rail links on your doorstep.
Leicestershire and Rutland offer the perfect balance: a welcoming, down-to-earth region with all the amenities you needbut none of the overwhelming pace.
What Youll Bring
- NMC registration and experience as a Sexual Health Nurse
- STIF Intermediate and DFRSH training (or willingness to complete).
- Strong autonomous clinical practice and decision-making skills.
- Experience or passion for working with vulnerable or high-risk groups.
- A drive for continuous improvement and innovation in sexual health.
- The ability to lead, support, and influence across the nursing team.
- A commitment to evidence-based practice, clinical governance, and excellent patient care.
- Non-medical prescriberorexperienced user of PGDs in a non-clinical environment.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes
Please see the attached person specification for a full list of requirements.
What We Offer
- A supportive, passionate multidisciplinary team who value your contribution.
- Opportunities for continual professional development and dual-training maintenance.
- The chance to take a leading role in shaping forward-thinking sexual health provision.
- A role that offers both variety and meaningful impact every single day.
Join Us
If you want a role where your clinical skills genuinely change livesboth in clinic and out in the communitythis is the opportunity for you.Join us in creating a sexual health service that is dynamic, inclusive, compassionate, and truly accessible to all.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Leicestershire and Rutland Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £38,682.00-£46,580.00 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shoppingas 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
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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.
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