# Sexual Health Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- **Town:** Thornton Heath
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 per annum, pro rata, inc HCAS (Outer)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-10T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27T07:23:20.462Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Thornton_Heath/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/Band/Band-v8142341
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8142341?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Nurse to join our team at Croydon University Trust.

We are an integrated Sexual Health service and a Level 3 GUM/Family Planning and HIV Service. We are looking for someone who is motivated, enthusiastic and possesses excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

We would expect you to have the ability to work and lead effectively amongst a multidisciplinary team across an innovative service. You will also have strong practice skills and knowledge and be committed to your on-going professional development and that of the service at Croydon Integrated Sexual Health Clinic.

As this is a specialist role, it is essential you are contraception trained (diploma from CoSRH) or must be working towards, including completion of STIF fundamentals/foundation or working towards. The main focus of this role is to be an expert Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health nurse, we do not require you to be HIV trained.

I encourage you to apply for this post as we have a dynamic developmental pathway for all our nursing staff and we look forward to meeting you.

### Main duties of the job

To participate in ensuring the daily delivery of Integrated Sexual Health Services as a Sexual Health Practitioner, to supervise junior staff, respond to and address operational issues during the shift.

To liaise with a multi-disciplinary team including clinical and non-clinical staff.

To undertake Practitioner Led Clinical sessions including history taking and physical examinations of patients.

To act as a clinical expert within the Trust, this will involve dissemination of specialist skills and knowledge to others.

Provide direct patient care, providing high quality advice and clinical treatment on all aspects of STIs and sexual health

To work adhering to the patient group directives (PGDs) or to prescribe as an independent prescriber including the prescription of hormonal contraception and STI treatment.

To gain competencies with insertion and removal of implants.

Interview date:  TBC

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Post registration experience and sexual health
- Experience of working with young people

**Desirable**

- Experience of Staff management

### Knowledge/Understanding

**Essential**

- Good knowledge of Contraception and Sexual Health
- Knowledge of working in Nurse Led Clinics

**Desirable**

- Clinical audit

### Education/Qualifications

**Essential**

- RGN and/or midwife and registration with NMC
- - Post registration qualification in contraception or must working towards, e.g. Diploma CoSRH
- - GUM qualification or course in STIs or must be working towards, e.g. STIF

**Desirable**

- Prescribing qualification
- BSc degree in nursing and/or midwifery

## Documents

- [chs accomodation (pdf, 676.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1725)
- [croydon nurse brochure (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1649)
- [croydon trust values (pdf, 324.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2317)
- [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2414)
- [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972)
- [map of croydon university hospital (pdf, 95.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=974)
- [job description and person specification (pdf, 528.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10448522)

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