Senior Sexual Health Nurse

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

• Lead on assessing planning and implementing high quality care, and evaluating care options for patients in the clinical area, in line with the Trust values and objectives.
• Lead on complex clinical care for patients within their area.
• Ensure the safe custody, maintenance and administration of medication, in accordance with established Trust policy.
• Promote and maintain a safe therapeutic environment for patients, their families and staff, according to national and local Infection Control guidelines, Health & Safety legislation and Trust
  policies and objectives.
• Provide sound evidence based clinical advice as required to staff and patients.
• Maintain a good understanding and implementation of clinical escalation procedures as required.
• Understand the Trust clinical governance framework, and participate in the promoting and safeguarding of high standards of care, through effective risk management & governance, and adherence to the Trust values.
• Ensure that the team promote, ensure and adhere to the Trust safeguarding polices.
• Undertake effective multi professionally work with colleagues to deliver care.
• Coordinate and manage nurse led clinics where appropriate.
• Coordinate specialist functions, including making clinical decisions where appropriate.
• Monitor quality of standards of care, in line with CQC requirements and Trust and Divisional objectives.
• Deliver and supervise a high quality patient experience.
• Work with manager to collect and disseminate data on quality indicators etc, in line with national and Trust objectives.
• Maintain a safe working environment, including ensuring equipment is safe, and used in line with Trust policy and values.
• Promote and maintain patient safety at all times, including proactively implementing falls prevention.
• Lead role in the detection, management and prevention of safeguarding issues.
• Have an awareness of current professional and clinical developments within their area of practice and promote this to others.

Leadership and Management

• Manage the day to day staffing arrangements and rotas, to ensure safe levels of practice.
• Be a shift coordinator on a regular basis where appropriate.
• Ensure staff adhere to Trust protocols of care, eg Infection Control
• Take continuing responsibility for the Ward / Department in absence of manager.
• Participate in senior nurse / unit on call rota / bleep holder (some areas, eg paediatrics) as appropriate.
• Lead and manage their own clinical team within general clinical areas, and of the total team in the absence of the manager, in line with Trust values.
• Develop and maintain effective communication and working relationships with other professional groups, and staff generally within the Division and the Trust.
• Contribute to the effective management of the area by ensuring correct levels of staff are in place to deliver and assist with the planning of off duty rotas.
• Assist in the delivery of induction / orientation of new staff.
• Act as a role model, ensuring staff work to Trust guidelines and values.
• Supervise, under the direction of their manager, the work of qualified and unqualified staff and learners.
• Provide clinical support and guidance to staff.
• Act as a resource for clinical knowledge to staff.
• Initiate action on complaints & incident management and responses, and assist in their investigation and resolution.
• Participate in recruitment and selection, and develop effective selection and interviewing skills.
• Undertake appraisals of staff, following training.
• Chair team meetings as required.
• Lead on specific projects, as indicated and agreed by manager.

Education and Research

• Participate in the education of all learners within their area.
• Actively support and assist in preceptorship and in pre registration student support, supervision and guidance including mentorship where appropriate.
• Identify and respond to learning needs for area.
• Develop and deliver or organise local training sessions, mindful of the Trust values.
• Facilitate others in the development of informal teaching skills.
• Participate in the annual training needs analysis for their area.
• Participate in any local or related research projects, clinical trials etc.

Professional development

• Maintain professional registration.
• Ensure mandatory training and a satisfactory appraisal is in date.
• Undertake a professional development plan and demonstrate achievement of objectives.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Successfully completed or willingness to undertake teaching/assessing course Evidence of professional development
• Relevant specialist courses/training

Desirable criteria

• Successfully completed: HIV course, Sexual health course, Counselling course, Working towards a BSc/ MSc, Relevant specialist courses/training including a recognised Family Planning qualification, Cervical Sample Taker Certificate
• Leadership training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant post registration sexual health or HIV experience at Band 5 level
• Wide variety of clinical experience
• Proven management experience
• Experience of clinical supervision
• Experience of excellence in leading all /part of a clinical team in practice
• Experience of teaching and supporting learners / new staff etc.
• Experience of health promotion and education
• Evidence of working with staff from different professional disciplines
• Awareness of HR issues
• Able to utilise evidence in practice
• To be competent in the independent STI management of asymptomatic and symptomatic patients or the management of patients living with HIV infection
• Experience of managing/coordinating team work
• Experience in issuing medicine using PGD's

Desirable criteria

• Proven management experience
• Experience of clinical supervision
• Experience in gynaecology, HIV, counselling, research, working in outreach settings and other experience related to the speciality or willing to undertake training
• Evidence of practice development Participation in audit/research
• Management training
• Experience in working with young people under the age of 16
• Recent experience of providing contraceptive care
• LARC training / willingness to undertake

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Proven clinical knowledge linked to area of specialty, and excellence in care delivery Current experience as either a sexual health (GU/FP)nurse alternatively current experience in a HIV inpatient or outpatient setting
• Venepuncture
• Ability / experience of managing change personally and as a facilitator
• Knowledge of budgets
• Experience of data
• Microscopy
• Cryotherapy
• Assessing Fraser Competence
• Proven knowledge of safety issues through clinical governance and risk management
• Proven leadership and deputising skills in clinical area
• Excellent communication skills with patients, relatives, staff and external contacts, including in challenging situations, demonstrating respect and kindness.
• Knowledge of current challenging and issues in nursing
• Commitment to teaching and learning for self and others
• Commitment to quality initiatives and research
• Clinical decision making skills and ability to prioritise workload
• Computer literacy skills

Desirable criteria

• Cervical Cytology
• Knowledge of HIV and related issues Demonstrates the ability to interpret and utilise numerical and financial information
• Proven management, leadership and supervisory skills
• Human Resource management

Trust values

Essential criteria

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to patients and staff
• Open and honest
• Unfailingly kind
• Determined to develop

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Effective role model, demonstrating values of safety, respect kindness and excellence
• Demonstrable evidence of being able and willing to understand our Trust values of respect, kindness, excellence and safety, with behaviour which reinforces these values
• Effective time management and prioritisation skills
• Approachable, respectful, supportive adaptable, and assertive
• Able to act as a patient's advocate
• Able to remain calm under pressure and can cope well with stressful situations
• Self-starter and able to work on own initiative
• Effective team member
• Enthusiastic and motivated

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

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