Health Advisor

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 5 Sexual Health Advisor within an established Sexual Health team based within the 1 to 1 centre in Northumberland and North Tyneside.  This post seeks to deliver high quality Sexual Health clinical care and Public Health interventions, in line with local and national policy. The successful candidate will be supported in obtaining the knowledge, skills and competencies required in Sexual Health Advising under the supervision of the Sexual Health lead.

The work would be to manage a case load of patients within the service, this includes face to face and phone consultations. When fully competent, the post holder would be expected to run treatment clinics and administer medication as per PGD

The post holder must be registered with the NMC Part1as a Registered Nurse (Adult), no previous experience is required.  Team working is expected with a positive approach to multi-discipline/ inter-agency team working.

The successful candidate will be supported with CPD and regular individual and group Clinical Supervision. This post is subject to DBS clearance.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the process of partner notification, applying public health principles in order to reduce transmission of STIs/HIV to improve sexual health in the community.

To work within clinical governance and performance management frameworks.

To educate and inform the public and professionals in sexual health issues The post-holder will contribute to service modernisation and development; achieving national and local performance targets within quality standards.

The post-holder will utilise an electronic patient record.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• With support of a mentor, to work towards assessing and meeting the needs of service users across the whole range of integrated service for sexual health services to deliver service within timed sessions, maintaining performance and productivity at an acceptable level.
• With support of a mentor, you will use the Fraser guidelines and other pertinent assessment tools for Child Sexual Exploitation, in the management of the young people (under 18), assessing capacity to give valid consent and accurately records the factors taken in to account when making the assessment.
• With support of a mentor, to work towards providing effective, efficient high-quality care to all patients within the speciality of sexual health
• Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients; gives specialist advice to clients/carers