Job overview

We are looking to recruit x2 part-time experienced dual trained Band 6 Senior Staff nurses to join our team in Northamptonshire Integrated Sexual Health and HIV (NISHH). X1 successful candidate will be offered a 30 hour contract and another x1 successful candidate will be offered 22.5hour contract.

As the Band 6 Senior Staff nurse you will be reporting to the Lead Nurse of the department, based in one of our hub’s Ashwood Centre, St Mary’s Hospital in Kettering, Northamptonshire. However, we also operate in  smaller spoke sites which include Wellingborough, Corby and Rushden. As well as our other main hub in Northampton General Hospital.  You may be asked to work at these sites according to the needs of the service, therefore it is essential for this role that you have the ability to across the Northamptonshire County. Our clinics have a range of opening times so we can offer appointments from 8am – 8pm, Monday to Friday.  We also offer some Saturday clinics.  

We offer an excellent internal teaching programme and supportive environment which will equip you with specialist skills to progress and see the development path to becoming an autonomous practitioner, able to participate in nurse-led clinics alongside doctors.

Come and join us and be involved in shaping a sexual health service for the future!

Main duties of the job

Sexual health nursing offers job satisfaction, supporting a patient for their entire service journey. With training and relevant experience, you will be able to apply for senior roles within the nursing team.  We actively engage with other agencies to safeguard young and vulnerable people.  In Northamptonshire, NISHH is a forward-thinking, multi-disciplinary team, embracing change and collaboratively working with you and others to develop the service with a real opportunity to put ideas into action. Your role will underpin many elements of the service delivery and is primarily to provide crucially important support to the more senior nursing and medical team. The Band 6 role is a key component of running all the clinics and managing the patients.

• Face to face and remote assessments and testing of patients attending clinic with GU symptoms or concerns. 
• Face to face and remote assessments and management of patients attending clinic for contraception and contraceptive concerns.
• Dispensing treatment for STI's and Contraception including IM injections 
• Partner notification
• Microscopy 
• Venepuncture 
• Health promotion 

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.