Job summary
- Main area
- Sexual Health
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2089
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Marys Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,546 - £32,207 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Health Care Assistant - Integrated Sexual Health and HIV
Band 3
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Looking to build your career in Sexual Health and HIV care? Want to break into a fast-paced, progressive area of healthcare? We’ve got the perfect opportunity for you.
The Jefferiss Wing at St Mary’s Hospital is on the lookout for a proactive, empathetic, and non-judgmental Healthcare Assistant to join our forward-thinking nursing team within the Integrated Sexual Health Service.
Why Join Us?
• Work in one of the UK’s leading sexual health centres
• Gain specialist experience in HIV, contraception, and sexual health care
• Get access to top-tier training and ongoing development
• Be part of a supportive, innovative team that values growth and excellence
What You’ll Do:
• Support clinics with sample collection and processing, phlebotomy, microscopy, and chaperoning procedures
• Support our expert clinicians in specialist clinics like IUT (Intrauterine Contraception)
• Make a real difference in people’s lives every day
What We Are Looking For:
• Excellent communicator (written & spoken)
• Confident using your initiative in a clinical setting
• Experience in phlebotomy or sexual health screening? Great! If not, we’ll train you.
• Above all – empathetic, inclusive, and passionate about patient care
Want to know more? Call us for an informal chat – we’d love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- To work across both clinics in Jefferiss Wing – The Sexual Health clinic and The HIV Outpatient Department (The Wharfside Clinic).
- To carry out care and treatment tasks, delegated from professionally qualified staff, requiring a range of technical ability.
- Ensure the clinic environment is safe and clean.
- Fulfil any clerical duties.
- To supervise less experienced Nursing Assistants.
- To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and provide support for any area specified by the coordinating nurse on duty.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- QCF Level 3 in Health or equivalent (NVQ3, Advanced Apprenticeship) Numerate
- Able to speak and write English to an appropriate standard to fulfil the job requirements.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate a clear insight into the role.
- Up to date experience - worked within an acute care setting within the last 18 months
- Willing to learn venepuncture and other relevant skills
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work well within the team.
- Ability to demonstrate caring approach.
- Good communication skills – both oral and written.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to perform venepuncture
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Professor Matthew Grundy-Bowers
- Job title
- Consultant Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
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