Senior Sexual Health Nurse - Outreach

This Band 6 outreach nurse post sits within the Sexual Health Service at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. It takes screening, HIV point-of-care testing and contraception advice into schools, colleges, secure units and community venues, for people who find clinics hard to reach. Shifts run Monday to Friday with early, late and occasional evening work, plus weekend events such as Pride.

NMC registration and a full UK driving licence are needed, as independent travel is part of the role.

• Deliver sexual health outreach across schools, colleges, residential settings, secure units and community venues
• Engage young people, vulnerable groups and people facing barriers to clinic-based services
• Provide sexual health screening and HIV point-of-care testing in outreach settings
• Advise on contraception, emergency contraception, sexual health, healthy relationships and risk reduction
• Identify sexual health needs and support access to clinical services and ongoing care
• Build trusted relationships with communities and partner organisations
• Deliver sexual health promotion and education to reduce stigma around sexual health and HIV
• Work independently and flexibly, adapting delivery to different communities and settings
• Contribute to outreach pathways and new ways of delivering care within the neighbourhood model
• Maintain standards of safeguarding, confidentiality, documentation and professional practice

• Level 6 degree or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Nursing diploma

• NMC registration

• Managing complex caseloads
• Supporting or mentoring others
• Delivering sexual health care, including assessment, screening and management within scope of practice
• Engaging and supporting people with complex needs or vulnerabilities

• Effective written and verbal communication
• Organising own workload, working under pressure and adapting to changing priorities
  
  Up-to-date, evidence-based clinical practice, recognising own limits and escalating appropriately
• Working in a demanding clinical environment with tact and sensitivity towards vulnerable patients

• Full valid UK driving licence

• Ability to travel independently

• STIF Intermediate qualification
• Awareness of NHS developments, National Service Frameworks and NICE guidance
• Evidence of adaptability and team working in changing service environments
• Experience across a range of sexual health clinical interventions and pathways
• Experience delivering healthcare in community or outreach settings and working with partner agencies

• Flexible working arrangements can be discussed