Make a real difference where it matters most. Are you a passionate Sexual Health Nurse ready to take your impact beyond the clinic walls? At HCRG Care Group, were redefining community sexual health reaching people who need us most and tackling health inequalities head-on. This is more than a nursing role. Its your opportunity to shape services, influence outcomes, and deliver care in a way that truly changes lives. As an Outreach Nurse Specialist, youll deliver high-quality sexual health and contraception services directly into communities, focusing on people who may not otherwise access care. You will: Provide expert, dual-trained sexual health and contraception care Lead and deliver outreach to marginalised and underserved groups Identify unmet needs and design targeted interventions Work closely with partners including mental health services, homelessness teams, and voluntary organisations Ensure smooth pathways between outreach and clinic services for complex cases Youll also play a key role in: Service development and transformation Data-driven planning and evaluation of outreach activity Supporting and mentoring colleagues and students Promoting innovation and continuous improvement This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week, worked across five days, with evening and occasional weekend work required.
Main duties of the job
This role offers the opportunity to impact community sexual health significantly by delivering expert care beyond traditional settings. You will lead outreach initiatives to assist underserved populations, ensuring high-quality sexual health and contraception services are accessible to those who might not otherwise seek them. Your responsibilities include designing targeted interventions, collaborating with mental health services, and ensuring smooth care pathways. Additionally, you will contribute to service development, evaluate outreach activities through data-driven methods, and support colleagues' growth. This full-time position requires flexibility, including evening and weekend work, and necessitates a full driving licence for community engagement.
About us
HCRG Care Group, established in 2006, is among the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. With a focus on experience, efficiency, and outcomes, the organisation works alongside health and care commissioners and communities to transform services. HCRG Care Group handles a range of services, including adult and children community health services, urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and musculoskeletal services. Guided by values such as care, thought, and action, the organisation is committed to changing lives through transforming health and care and actively supports a diverse workforce by promoting equal opportunities and being a Disability Confident Committed company.
Job responsibilities
Package Description: Make a real difference where it matters most.
Are you a passionate Sexual Health Nurse ready to take your impact beyond the clinic walls? At HCRG Care Group, were redefining community sexual health reaching people who need us most and tackling health inequalities head-on.
This is more than a nursing role. Its your opportunity to shape services, influence outcomes, and deliver care in a way that truly changes lives.
As an Outreach Nurse Specialist, youll deliver high-quality sexual health and contraception services directly into communities, focusing on people who may not otherwise access care.
You will:
* Provide expert, dual-trained sexual health and contraception care
* Lead and deliver outreach to marginalised and underserved groups
* Identify unmet needs and design targeted interventions
* Work closely with partners including mental health services, homelessness teams, and voluntary organisations
* Ensure smooth pathways between outreach and clinic services for complex cases
Youll also play a key role in:
* Service development and transformation
* Data-driven planning and evaluation of outreach activity
* Supporting and mentoring colleagues and students
* Promoting innovation and continuous improvement
This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week, worked across five days, with evening and occasional weekend work required. A full driving licence is essential to enable travel between clinic sites and community locations.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Sexual Health Outreach Nurse, you will be part of our valued team in our Leicestershire & Rutland Sexual Health Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
* £39,959-£48,117 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
* Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
* Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
* Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
* Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
* An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
* The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Ideal Candidate
Youre someone who thrives outside the traditional clinic setting and is passionate about reducing health inequalities.
* Registered General Nurse
* FSRH Diploma
* Experience in sexual health and contraception
* Strong communication and relationship-building skills
While not essential, it would be desirable for the candidate to hold Qualification Independent Nurse Prescriber certification and have experience in Outreach Sexual Health, particularly working with hard-to-reach communities. A willingness to undertake training for IUD/IUS insertion is also preferred, along with possession of a teaching and mentoring qualification or a commitment to complete relevant training.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Essential: Registered General Nurse, FSRH Diploma, Experience in sexual health and contraception, Strong communication and relationship-building skills. Desirable: Independent Nurse Prescriber certification, experience in Outreach Sexual Health, willingness to train for IUD/IUS insertion, teaching and mentoring qualification or commitment to training.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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