Role Summary
The post holder will work as part of the Sexual Health Team to provide assessment, counselling and support on aspects of sexual and reproductive health and contraception within clinic guidelines and protocols. This will include providing a nurse-led service in various settings and undertaking extended roles.
The post holder will offer sexual health screening and will provide health promotion on all matters relating to sexual and general health, contraception, genitourinary infections, HIV, other sexual health concerns.
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
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More detail about the role
Devon Sexual Health Exeter service is looking to recruit new 2 new Nurse Advisers who would like to continue or develop a career in sexual health and contraceptive care.
The post holders will be required to work flexibly within the multi-disciplinary team and be able to independently provide a high standard of individualised nursing care to patients attending the service with sexual health needs, HIV infection and for contraception advice and methods. For those new to the speciality, appropriate training, to include nationally recognised courses and dedicated in-house training and support will be provided.
Devon Sexual Health clinics are currently working via a telephone consultation model, alongside busy face-to-face appointment lists and a young-persons' drop in clinic, with all staff working together to meet local and national targets. Regular HIV clinics, led by consultants in collaboration with specialist nursing staff, are also provided. Contraception clinics offer the full range of contraception methods, to include LARCs and emergency contraception, alongside unplanned pregnancy testing, advice and TOP referrals. The nursing team at Devon Sexual Health work in close partnership with medical colleagues and all offer support, enthusiasm and a forward-thinking approach to patient care.
These substantive positions include a full-time and a part-time post, working mainly Monday to Friday. The roles will include working some evenings and possible weekends on a rotational basis. The clinics are primarily based at the Exeter service. Prior to the pandemic, the service also operated regular clinics in Tiverton, Exmouth and Okehampton, which staff worked at on a rotational basis; it is expected that all of these clinics will resume in the next 12 months. Travel for training and to/from outreach clinics, sometimes in rural locations, is expected; so flexible working and ability to travel independently is essential.
Banding will be discussed at interview and will be dependent on sexual health related qualifications and recent experience working in a sexual health environment. We would welcome applications from newly qualified nurses or nursing staff who are looking to change career. Please state the reasons why you wish to work in sexual health as part of your application. We do expect a high number of applications for this role, so any relevant experience or training will be advantageous.
Band 5 or 6 depending on experience.
Interview Date: Monday 31st October 2022
For further information please contact Laurance Druiff Senior Nurse on 01392 284966 l.druiff@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
