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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Sexual Health Nurse
Closed for applications on: 20-Mar-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 20-Mar-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- One to One Centre
- Address
- Brenkley Avenue
- Town
- Shiremoor
- Postcode
- NE27 0PR
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join the Sexual Health services as a Sexual Health nurse working across Northumbria NHS Trust. We wish to appoint a Sexual Health Nurse to work delivering Integrated Sexual Health Services including contraception provision and STI screening to patients aged 13 years and over. We will provide our staff with training opportunities to enhance their skills, knowledge and career progression within the Sexual Health service, while providing high quality and safe service in line with the Trust Values.
The post is permanent mainly working across the service within the hours of 08:30 to 19:30 Monday to Friday.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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- Provide integrated sexual health to patients aged 13 and upwards from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds.
- Work in an unsupervised role and be able to make clinical decisions /assessments following completion of in-house training and competency-based assessments. The post holder will be supported to undertake recognised sexual health qualifications and training.
- Provide evidence-based advice to patients and other healthcare professionals
- Work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of clinical sessions across the geography of Northumberland and North Tyneside.
- Contribute to the implementation of current and future national, local and service specific projects and standards.
- Work within trust guidelines.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Promote and effectively use all methods of communication.
- Demonstrate excellent personal communication. Establish and maintain effective two-way communication channels with individuals and groups.
- Responsible for ensuring own clinical practice complies with data protection/Confidentiality/Fraser guidelines and Caldicott principles.
- Convey complex information effectively to patients and staff often in potential crisis situations.
- Participate in the assessment of factors which might negatively affect patient’s sexual health and refer or signpost to more appropriate services as necessary.
- Provide a non-judgmental, sensitive approach at all times with a solid understanding of equality and diversity issues.
- Actively contribute to supervision, individual and peer-group and to appraisal process.
- Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – Part 1 of register
- Study at degree level or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18-month period).
Experience and knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching or mentoring nurses.
- Post registration clinical experience.
- Experience working in a busy outpatient setting
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Mole
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0344 7280554
- Additional information
Gillian Teasdale Lead Nurse 01670 500501
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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