Practice Nurse - Special Interest in Sexual Health
Key Roles & Responsibilities
Sexual Health Services
* Deliver sexual health consultations in line with national and local guidelines.
* Provide contraception services, including oral contraceptives, injections, emergency contraception, and fitting/removal of LARC (implants and IUD/IUS).
* Undertake STI testing, screening, and treatment, including chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV, and other infections.
* Provide pregnancy testing, advice, and onward referral as required.
* Undertake partner notification in line with best practice guidelines.
* Promote sexual health awareness and safe sex practices.
* Liaise with specialist sexual health and GUM services for complex cases.
General Practice Nursing
* Provide treatment room services including wound care, dressings, ECGs, ear irrigation, phlebotomy, and suture removal.
* Deliver adult and childhood immunisations and travel vaccinations according to national schedules.
* Support chronic disease management clinics (e.g., asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension) in partnership with the clinical team.
* Perform cervical screening (if trained and accredited).
* Undertake NHS Health Checks and other preventative screening programmes.
* Provide lifestyle and health promotion advice, including smoking cessation, weight management, and physical activity.
* Assist in infection prevention and control measures and contribute to CQC compliance.
Professional & Governance
* Maintain clinical competencies in both sexual health and general practice nursing, including LARC provision, and keep a register with logs of fittings.
* Keep accurate and timely patient records using EMIS Web or equivalent systems.
* Work within the NMC Code of Conduct and relevant legislation.
* Participate in service audits, quality improvement initiatives, and multidisciplinary meetings.
* Undertake mandatory training, and participate in clinical supervision and annual appraisal.
* Follow safeguarding procedures for children and adults, raising concerns appropriately.
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