Specialist Nurse for Integrated Sexual Health

An exciting opportunity for 12 months fixed term maternity cover has arisen for Sexual Health Nurses with extensive experience of working autonomously to join our Integrated Sexual Health team, working across Northumberland and North Tyneside. Successful candidates will be experienced in fitting IUDs and implants and must be able to demonstrate proven, relevant, post-registration professional knowledge, supplemented by specialist training and experience., Provide integrated sexual health to patients aged 13 and upwards from a diverse range of cultural and social backgrounds.

Work as autonomous practitioner within nurse led clinical sessions and issue medications/treatments in accordance with local care pathways and Patient Group Directions and in accordance with the NMC Administration of Medicines guidance.

Provide evidence-based advice to patients and other healthcare professionals.

Work collaboratively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the effective and efficient delivery of clinical sessions across the geography of Northumberland and North Tyneside.

We are an innovative and progressive service, offering good support and supervision, augmented by dedicated in-house training. We are keen to develop our staff skills to ensure we continue to deliver the best outcomes for our patients. We have several permanent posts available for motivated and committed nurses.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.