Sexual Health Nurse

Job overview

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Sexual Health Nurse to join our Integrated Sexual Health Service in East Sussex, full time and part time positions available. You’ll be part of a friendly, consultant-led multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality sexual health care across clinic and outreach settings. This role focuses on providing accessible services to people who may not attend mainstream clinics, supporting early testing, treatment, contraception, and health promotion. You’ll use your clinical skills to:

• Deliver nurse-led clinics and outreach sessions in community venues.
• Provide holistic, person-centred assessment, treatment, and education.
• Support partner notification, safeguarding, and health improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and students, helping build a supportive learning culture.
• Take part in service development and quality improvement work that reflects our CARE values — Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.

If you’re passionate about reducing sexual-health inequalities and making services more inclusive, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver safe, effective and person-centred sexual health care
• Undertake holistic assessments, investigations, treatment and management of patients presenting with sexual health or contraceptive needs.
• Provide advice, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and issue medication under Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
• Support the delivery of contraception services including emergency contraception, oral contraception and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) pathways.
• Promote HIV testing, provide results, and support onward referral to HIV services as required.
• Lead and support partner notification, safeguarding, and risk-reduction interventions in line with local and national guidance.
• Work collaboratively with partner agencies to improve access to care for vulnerable groups, including those who are homeless, involved in sex work, or otherwise marginalised.
• Contribute to outreach and health-promotion campaigns aimed at reducing inequalities and improving sexual health outcomes.
• Maintain accurate clinical documentation and participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and governance activity.
• Supervise, support and mentor junior nurses, health advisers and students, ensuring safe clinical practice and professional development.
• Participate in service evaluation, clinical meetings and development initiatives to improve care delivery and patient experience.
• Must be available to work cross site between Hastings and Eastbourne sites.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.