Senior Staff Nurse

Senior Staff Nurse Guildford, England

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Full Time Guildford, England 35392 - 42503 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Band 6 Integrated Sexual Health Senior Nurse

Buryfields Sexual Health Clinic, Guildford

Surrey Integrated Sexual Health & HIV Services are pleased to be offering a great opportunity for registered nurses looking for a chance to progress their career within this speciality. The post holder will be a motivated registered nurse with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who has an enthusiasm to work effectively within a multidisciplinary innovative sexual and reproductive health service.

The post is full time WTE 1.0 (37.5hrs) but consideration will be given to suitable candidates who wish to work part time with a minimum of WTE 0.5 (18.75hrs).

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a high standard of sexual and reproductive health care to patients. This will include delivering nurse-led clinics for Sexual Health and contraception. To take charge of the clinic shift on a regular basis according to rota, as well as supporting health care support workers and medical staff.

The post holder will facilitate the learning experience and environment for nurses (both pre and post registration) and other health professionals undergoing training and education in the department. This will include supervising and mentoring students undertaking contraceptive and sexual health courses.

We are committed to offering you an environment to flourish which includes dedicated development opportunities as well as a healthier work life balance. We will offer you;

  • Flexible shift working, Part-timer or Condensed hours to provide a healthy work-life balance; 60/40 work split allowing time to work from home.
  • Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessions such as Preceptorship Workshop, Leadership programmes, ACP modules and CBT-P training.
  • Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
  • Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
  • On-site shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more.
  • An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients.
  • Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
  • Award-winning Staff Networks
  • Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies
To maintain a high standard of nursing care and service provision, testing, treatment and management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and screening for HIV and other blood borne infections (BBVs). (Relevance dependent on site of work).

To inform, advise, teach and counsel clients on all methods of contraception
including performing Implanon insertion and removal.

To obtain clear and thorough relevant histories from patients.

To examine patients and obtain appropriate clinical specimens according to clinic protocol.

To manage a range of symptomatic and asymptomatic female and male cases including discharge, genital ulceration and genital warts. (Relevance dependent on site of work).

To initiate Cryotherapy according to Cryotherapy protocol.

To recognize signs and symptoms of complex and unstable health problems
requiring medical review and refer on to appropriate health professionals.

To treat patients within the confines of patient group directions (PGDs) and arrange prescriptions of treatments not covered by PGD and safely administer and supply these.

To perform microscopy according to protocol. (Relevance dependent on site of work).

To carry out partner notification processes.

To promote sexual health and wellbeing through advice and information giving.

To maintain clinical case notes including electronic patients records to a high standard.

To observe and adhere to clinic protocols and working guidelines.

To liaise with nursing colleagues, other members of the multidisciplinary team and external agencies.

To assist in provision of nurse led sexual and reproductive health consultation in an outreach setting.

To assist the HCSW (Health Care Support Worker) to set up clinics, maintain equipment and order supplies if required.

To take part in initiatives to engage users in the development of the services depending on site of work

Senior Staff Nurse
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

www.cnwl.nhs.uk
London, United Kingdom
Claire Murdoch
$100 to $500 million (USD)
5001 to 10000 Employees
Company - Public
Healthcare Services & Hospitals
2002
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