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Speciality Doctor for Integrated Sexual Health Services

Job details
Posting date: 08 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £52,530 - £82,400 pro rata per annum.
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 08 May 2024
Location: Shiremoor, NE27 0PR
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6162028/319-6162028NR

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


The Community Services Business Unit inNorthumbria Healthcare NHS Trust delivers a wide range of health services to meet the needs of local people. As part of the continued service development programme we have recently built the capacity to offer new openings to support the Sexual Health Services across Northumberland and North Tyneside. One such role is the Sexual Health Specialty Doctor.

The successful candidate will have post registration qualifications or experience in sexual health and be expected to undertake total patient management including the fitting of long acting contraceptives, performance of vasectomy clinics (with appropriate training if required) and be involved in audit and training of other practitioners and students. The post holder will cover all sites within Northumberland and North Tyneside, including our base sites in Blyth and Shiremoor, and our Outreach venues across the region.

Good organisational and time management skills are essential, along with excellent interpersonal skills and positive teamworking to effectively work collegiately to support the continual evolution of the clinical team.

We strongly encourage interested applicants to visit the Trust and meet prospective colleagues. Arrangements can be made via our contact details below.

To work as a Specialty Doctor in the Integrated Sexual Health Service in Northumberland and North Tyneside.

To undertake patient management, assessment, screening and diagnosis, implementing treatment of all STI's and contraception methods including LARCs.

To perform regular clinical audits.

To perform vasectomy clinics following appropriate training if required.

To utilise an electronic patient record system .

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.

Provides accurate up to date, information on modern methods of contraception promoting Long Acting Reversible methods.

To deliver Genitourinary Medicine, HIV outpatient and Contraception services for Northumbria Healthcare Sexual Health Service in keeping with competencies and experience.

Health Promotion and screening in relation to Sexual health care, cervical cytology, pregnancy testing, options, STI and HIV screening.

Diagnose STI's using microscopy and requesting relevant investigations via electronic pathology link.

Informing patient of positive results and implement treatment plan and care management.

Ensure accurate electronic patient record.

To provide specialist advice as required on contraceptive and sexual health matters to GPs and other medical and non-medical staff, internally and externally.


This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024

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