Sexual Health and Contraception Nurse/Outreach Service

Job overview

Main duties of the job

We welcome applications from those who currently hold a UK NMC registration. If you currently hold an overseas nursing qualification and require sponsorship we are not currently direct hiring Internationally Qualified Nurses.

The post holder will be able to:

• Support patients with distressing and sensitive and personal information in a skilled and knowledgeable manner, utilising well developed communication skills of listening, responding, engaging and empathising.
• Deliver bad news, including positive sexually transmitted infection results and pregnancy test results.
• Discuss sensitive sexual health issues with patients to support decision making including condom use, unexpected or unplanned pregnancies, sexual practices, sexuality issues, sexual assault and infections such as hepatitis, syphilis and HIV.
• Work within cross agency agreements to provide access to emergency contraception for young people within secondary schools across Brighton and Hove.
• Ensure through good practice that patient care initiatives are continuously improved and sustained;
• Be committed to a team approach to service provision and patient management.
• Liaise effectively with other key staff within the service.
• Demonstrate, through thoughts and actions, commitment to the Trust Core Values

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will assess, plan and implement and evaluate ‘packages’ of care to provide holistic sexual and reproductive health care to patients attending the service in relation to their sexual health. The post holder is required to be clinically competent to:

• Works autonomously as an independent practitioner to manage a patient episode of care within a team framework.
• Assess patient’s level of understanding and factors impacting on ability to consent to care (including HIV testing, clinical examination and treatment); Able to effectively support junior members of the team to manage patients with complex needs where appropriate.
• Identifies high risk patients including, safeguarding, vulnerable adults, sexual risk taking, those in abusive relationships or victims of past or current assault. Able to assess needs, negotiate care and make sensitive ongoing referral.
• Support young people, including those aged under 16 years of age, with support from other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Participate in safeguarding and young people themed training and educational opportunities
• Assess and appropriately respond to risk of / experience of sexual exploitation and abuse.
• To provide an efficient sexual health outreach service in the locality (including visiting clients in their home or alternative locations to clinic), liaising and communicating with other agencies to ensure young people’s needs and vulnerabilities are addressed.
• Assess contraceptive needs, negotiates individual care plans, initiate and change methods of practice, provide appropriate patient education and assess and initiate any ongoing support required.
• Undertake patient assessment and triage.

Manage episodes of patient care, including history taking, care planning, examination (including genital examination), specimen collection (including venepuncture and cervical cytology), vaccination in patients