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Sexual Health Clinical Fellow
The closing date is 15 July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Sexual Health Service (SHS) as a Clinical Fellow in Sexual Health at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (SFHT). The post is based at King's Mill Hospital but the successful appointee may also work at other community SHS sites across Nottinghamshire.
The SHS is a modern, comprehensive sexual health service and a wide range of contraception care is provided, including the management of complex contraception care, insertion and removal of intrauterine contraception devices/systems, implant procedures and injectable contraception. The service also provides genitourinary medicine (GUM) services for sexually transmitted infection (STI) care, genital infections/conditions, and HIV outpatient care.
We are looking for a motivated and committed person with experience in sexual health to be part of our friendly and forward-thinking multidisciplinary team and complement our existing team who provide GUM, SRH and HIV outpatient services.
Main duties of the job
The main duties are to provide outpatient sexual health services for contraception provision as well as STI and genital infections/conditions treatment and care. These are mainly through face to face clinics.
You will be expected to work within national guidelines and standard operating procedures within the service.
Duties will also include teaching and training of other clinicians, such as resident doctors, medical students and nurses, as well as other clinical and non-clinical staff.
Active involvement in departmental and Trust audit/clinical governance is expected in collaboration with other staff in the department.
The person specifications for the post are detailed in the Job Description and Person Specifications, which is attached.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job responsibilities
Please see details above and attached Job Description and Person Specifications for a detailed description of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Full registration (and with a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC)
* Post graduate qualification in Sexual Health such as DFSRH, LoC IUT, LoC SDI, STI Foundation Theory/Competency, Dip GUM (or evidence of equivalent qualification)
Experience
* Current experience of working within the NHS
* Evidence of completion of key competencies equivalent to completion of Foundation Year 2 training
* Experience of working in Sexual Health for 3 months or longer
* Wide experience in reproductive and sexual health
* Wide experience in reproductive and sexual health
* Experience in procedures such as genital biopsy, IUD/S and Implant
Research/Audit/ Governance
* Understanding of Evidence Based Medicine
* Understanding of the principles of medical audit and clinical governance
* Publications in peer-reviewed journals
* Ability to effectively organise and manage clinical and administrative workload, and prioritise appropriately
* Ability to recognise when it is appropriate to seek advice, when to delegate and be able to do both of these effectively
* Understanding of the current structure of the NHS and recent initiatives
Teaching
* A demonstrable interest in teaching
* Evidence of experience in teaching medical undergraduate/ postgraduate students, and other clinical and non-clinical staff
* Evidence of training in how to teach
* Demonstrable ability as a teacher
Other
* Communication skills - to have language competency and communication skills to do the job safely and competently
* Empathetic and caring attitude to patients and colleagues
* Willing to work flexibly
* Ability to travel between SHS sites
* Computer skills and familiarity with IT
* Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and professional development
* Self-motivated
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.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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