Job summary
- Main area
- Sexual Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Countywide cover
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 818-CYP261
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ironstone Medical Centre
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/10/2024
Employer heading
Senior Sexual Health Practitioner
Band 6
LCHS Way
We Listen, We Care, We Act, We Improve
We listen: we engage with everyone we work with, we are united, we are always positive
We care: everyone is valued, respected and developed, knowledge and skills are nurtured, success is celebrated
We act: clear goals and right resources, freedom coupled with accountabilty, emphasis on simplicity
We improve: we are creative, resourceful and innovative, integrated and collaboration is the way forward, we're always striving to do better
....Fit for now, fit for the future.
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Job overview
North Lincolnshire Integrated Sexual Health Services (N-LiSH) have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced clinician to join our Countywide service as a senior NMC registered practitioner.
LiSH provides services to a range of patients requiring sexual health and contraceptive needs.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have achieved a portfolio of competences to provide autonomous care within LiSH.
FSRH Letter of Competence SDI and BASHH qualifications are desirable.
We are looking for an individual who can evidence relevant experience in a sexual health/contraception role with associated skills and knowledge.
This role is based in Scunthorpe but there will be an expectation to travel and cover other areas when needed., therefore ability to travel and support other clinics in Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire is essential.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services support travel costs from the successful candidates base.
Working for our organisation
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support B5 nurses, medical and nursing students, trainee GP's.
Provide clinical supervision, 1:1's, appraisals, Link nurse role.
Contribute to teaching sessions and provide health promotion activity.
Take part in audit and incident investigations.
Qualified practitioners will provide telephone and face to face contact, physical examinations, treatments, LARC, microscopy, cryotherapy, results management, contact tracing, referral management, triage services.
Supporting patients through their journey using sexual health services.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel countywide
- Recent evidence of providing patient centred care
- Experience of mentorship and clinical supervision
- Experience in sexual health services
- LARC fitter
Desirable criteria
- FSRH or BASHH qualifications
- Experience with medicine management
- Evidence of Leadership skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paloma Diaz Estevez
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07552955050
- Additional information
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