Job overview
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Sexual Health Nurse (Outreach) to join our Integrated Sexual Health Service in East Sussex.
You’ll be part of a friendly, consultant-led multidisciplinary team delivering high-quality sexual health care across clinic and outreach settings. This role focuses on providing accessible services to people who may not attend mainstream clinics, supporting early testing, treatment, contraception, and health promotion.
You’ll use your clinical skills to:
1. Deliver nurse-led clinics and outreach sessions in community venues.
2. Provide holistic, person-centred assessment, treatment, and education.
3. Support partner notification, safeguarding, and health improvement initiatives.
4. Supervise and mentor junior staff and students, helping build a supportive learning culture.
5. Take part in service development and quality improvement work that reflects our CARE values — Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent.
If you’re passionate about reducing sexual-health inequalities and making services more inclusive, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.
Main duties of the job
Deliver safe, effective and person-centred sexual health care in both clinic and community outreach settings.
Undertake holistic assessments, investigations, treatment and management of patients presenting with sexual health or contraceptive needs.
Provide advice, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and issue medication under Patient Group Directions (PGDs).
Support the delivery of contraception services including emergency contraception, oral contraception and long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) pathways.
Promote HIV testing, provide results, and support onward referral to HIV services as required.
Lead and support partner notification, safeguarding, and risk-reduction interventions in line with local and national guidance.
Work collaboratively with partner agencies to improve access to care for vulnerable groups, including those who are homeless, involved in sex work, or otherwise marginalised.
Contribute to outreach and health-promotion campaigns aimed at reducing inequalities and improving sexual health outcomes.
Maintain accurate clinical documentation and participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and governance activity.
Supervise, support and mentor junior nurses, health advisers and students, ensuring safe clinical practice and professional development.
Participate in service evaluation, clinical meetings and development initiatives to improve care delivery and patient experience.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).
Job responsibilities
As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
6. Registered Nurse or Midwife with current NMC registration. Evidence of continued professional development relevant to sexual health
Desirable criteria
7. • STIF Intermediate or equivalent sexual health qualification. • DFSRH or LARC competence. • Cervical cytology training. • Mentorship or teaching qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
8. • Minimum 18 months’ experience in sexual health, infectious disease, or related acute/community setting. • Experience providing STI screening, testing, and management of symptomatic patients. • Experience supporting contraception and sexual health care under PGDs. • Experience working with vulnerable or hard-to-reach groups.
Desirable criteria
9. • Experience running nurse-led clinics. • Experience supervising junior staff or students. • Experience contributing to audits or service development.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. Understanding of safeguarding principles for adults and children. • Knowledge of confidentiality, consent and record-keeping in sexual health. • Awareness of local and national sexual health policies and NICE guidance. • Understanding of partner notification and health promotion.
Desirable criteria
11. • Knowledge of HIV care pathways. • Awareness of current research and best practice in sexual health. • Understanding of public health approaches to reducing sexual health inequalities.
Skliis and Ability
Essential criteria
12. • Strong clinical assessment and decision-making skills. • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including discussing sensitive topics. • Ability to manage time, prioritise workload, and work autonomously. • Competent use of IT systems and electronic health records.
Desirable criteria
13. • Competent in microscopy or willingness to train. • Presentation or teaching skills.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
14. • Compassionate, non-judgemental and inclusive approach. • Flexible and adaptable across outreach and clinic settings. • Reliable and supportive team player. • Committed to providing person-centred care and improving access for underserved groups.
Desirable criteria
15. • Demonstrates leadership potential and reflective practice.
Ability to Manage
Essential criteria
16. • Able to supervise and support junior staff and students. • Able to prioritise and coordinate clinical workload safely. • Contributes to service development and quality improvement.
Desirable criteria
17. Experience in team coordination or acting up in a leadership role.
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