Sexual Health Nurse, Band 6
| Posting date: | 10 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £44,962.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £44962.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Gloucester, GL1 3NN |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9318-25-0647 |
Summary
Patient care - Demonstrate and promote a family centred style of clinical practice. - Use motivational interviewing techniques to assess, and plan and offer a range of safe contraceptive options; deliver, evaluate and amend the plan. This will include clients with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies. Working as an autonomous practitioner with access to guidance from specialist sexual health services when necessary. - To be responsible for the organisation of your own work and ensure effective time management. To assist the midwifery teams in administering contraception and offer support and guidance as required. - To run satellite clinics providing postnatal contraception. - To communicate with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to aid effective care, this will include taking an active role in team meetings. - To communicate effectively with clients with potentially complex, sensitive or distressing circumstances. Patients may have communication, perceptual or cognitive/understanding difficulties. - To maintain clear, accurate and concise patient records in line with departmental and professional standards. - Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times Professional practice - Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to deliver and evidence based service. - With supervision and direction from Team leader take on increased responsibility recognising own limitations and seeking help appropriately - Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems. - Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust - Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model at all times Leadership and management - In conjunction with their manager, identify training needs of self. - Report near misses and untoward incidents. - Maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with lead staff. - Ensure a smart, professional image that enhances the public perception of the Trust and the professionalism of its staff is portrayed. - Act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements - Under the direction of lead Midwife contribute to service development using quality improvement methodology. Education and training - To consolidate and learn new skills and competencies - To support lead in providing training and education to midwifery staff - Undertake all mandatory training - Demonstrate a commitment to research-based practice and clinical excellence and play and active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centred care. Improving quality and developing practice - Comply with requirements to register and identify own learning needs and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments. - With support from your lead be involved in interpreting and understanding Audit data to conduct improvement initiatives. - Develop and share own clinical knowledge with other members of the wider clinical team both locally and nationally. - Engage in clinical supervision - Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/ protocols/ guidelines. - Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved. - Undertake a QI project.