Women's Health Nurse Associate

Job responsibilities

Clinical responsibilities

Contraception Counselling

Long Acting Reversible Contraception Counselling

Assisting in LARC procedures

Improve access to smear appointments

STI screens

Smear taking

Pill checks

Assisting in HRT requests and menopause care

Chaperoning

Delivery of community education sessions

Education Training and Development:

Engage in appropriate professional development activities in order to maintain clinical competence and performance by attending staff meetings and joint educational meetings.

Ensure that practice is evidence based and in line with national or other given standards

Undertake mandatory and statutory training, keeping up to date with emergency procedures undertaking training as required.

Generic Responsibilities for all staff:

All post holders will agree to:

Role model the values of SLGPC member PCNs in all activities and interactions with employees, service users/ patients and other stakeholders

Comply with the Duty of Candour, defined by Francis as: 'The volunteering of all relevant information to persons who have or may have been harmed by the provision of services, whether or not the information has been requested and whether or not a complaint or a report about that provision has been made.

Work across professional and organisational boundaries to improve services for all.

Maintain their specific knowledge base and develop new skills.

Value the contribution of the patient / service user voice.

Operate within any organisational codes of practice or those from a relevant professional body.

Respect equality and diversity across all areas of working practice and communications with staff, service users and other stakeholders.

Take responsibility for the accurate and timely collection and recording of data and ensuring all personally identifiable information is protected and used only for the purposes for which it was intended.

Comply with all health and safety legislation and local policies and procedures.

Adhere to all organisational policies.

Have knowledge and understanding of technology in the workplace which is sufficient to maintain their efficiency and also how technology can empower service users in a digital environment

Comply with the NHS Constitution in relation to the staff responsibilities that it sets out for NHS employees.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships and share care with multidisciplinary and community health care teams/organisations
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• Commitment to delivery of high quality medical care
• Flexibility in the role to adapt to rapid changes in service demands and pressures
• Supportive attitude to Multidisciplinary team working
• Commitment to public service values of transparency, probity and accountability

Desirable

• A full clean driving license
• Able to transport themselves across South Liverpool General Practice Collaborative Footprint

Experience

Essential

• Experience of carrying out health screening
• Knowledge of primary/secondary prevention services
• Experience of auditing own work and agreeing best practice on the basis of evidence
• Knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance

Desirable

• Experience of adapting medical practice clinical computer systems
• Experience of working with client groups who are deprived, excluded and marginalised
• Evidence of team / service development
• Evidence of adaptability to change
• Commitment to real health improvement for disadvantaged people and communities
• Experience of delivering community education sessions
• Chronic disease management

Qualifications

Essential

• Fully qualified Nursing Associate with up-to-date registration with appropriate Regulatory body (License to practice)
• Evidence of continued professional development in accordance with re-validation (if appropriate)
• English language proficiency equivalent to the standard required by GMC (IELTS)

Desirable

• Faculty of Sexual Health certification
• Letter of Competence in Intrauterine Devices.
• Letter of Competence in Subdermal Implants.
• Other higher specialist qualifications
• Cytology certification
• Ring pessary knowledge and Fitting experience

Values

Essential

• Reflect the following values shared by the South Liverpool General Practice Collaborative
• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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).