Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse

Job summary

As a Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Chester and West Chester Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• £31,049.00-£37,796.00(Band 5 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 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
• 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

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Sexual Health Nurse you will:

• Provides a professional non-judgemental, confidential approach to patient care.
• Assess all patients under the age of 18 years old using HCRG vulnerability/spotting the signs toolkits and follows HCRG safeguarding policy, if safeguarding concern identified.
• Takes responsibility for own continuing professional development and maintaining of competencies.
• Provides patients with inform choice to enable them to consent to care.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and provides follow up care for asymptomatic and symptomatic patients, and those with complex sexual health needs including GBMSM (gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men).
• Assesses and provides care for patients attending for initiation and continuation of PREP.
• Assess and provides care for patients attending for emergency contraception.
• Competent in Venepuncture.
• Provides cytology (once training completed).
• Microscopy
• HIV promotion, offering PREP, PEPSE, appropriate vaccination, to those who meet criteria. Discussing importance of condom usage and window periods in relation to sexual health screening.
• Within 2 years of commencement of post must have completed, STIF Gateway competencies.
• Supervises new colleagues, medical and nursing students.

Please see full list on the job description attached.

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

Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Chester

Cheshire

CH1 4DS

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

HCRG Care Group

Address

HCRG Care Group

Chester

Cheshire

CH1 4DS

Employer's website

https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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