Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Health Advisor
The closing date is 19 October 2025
An exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 5 Sexual Health Advisor within the Sexual Health Team. This post delivers high quality clinical care and expert Public Health interventions, in line with local and national policy to improve Sexual Health.
The successful candidate will be supported in obtaining the knowledge, skills and competencies required in Sexual Health Advising to deliver excellent patient care.
The post holder must be registered with the NMC as a Registered General Nurse.
The post holder will provide clinical and Public Health interventions, treatment of STI's, partner notification and outreach activity to improve community and individual health and well-being.
A high level of autonomous clinical practice is expected from the post holder demonstrating knowledge and skills related to Public Health practice, working with hard to reach and marginalized communities. Team working is expected with a positive approach to multi-discipline/inter-agency working.
This post includes extended clinical clerical functions; the post holder should be interested in supporting the care and management of patients using computer-based technology and telephony. Excellent customer care is expected and adherence to anti-discriminatory practice is a requisite for working into this area.
The successful candidate will be supported with CPD and regular individual and group Clinical Supervision. Post subject to DBS clearance.
Please note previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will support the process of partner notification, applying public health principles in order to reduce transmission of STIs/HIV to improve sexual health in the community.
* To work within clinical governance and performance management frameworks
* To educate and inform the public and professionals in sexual health issues
* The post-holder will contribute to service modernisation and development; achieving national and local performance targets within quality standards.
* The post-holder will utilise an electronic patient record
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job responsibilities
* With support of a mentor, to work towards assessing and meeting the needs of service users across the whole range of integrated service for sexual health services to deliver service within timed sessions, maintaining performance and productivity at an acceptable level.
* With support of a mentor, you will use the Fraser guidelines and other pertinent assessment tools for Child Sexual Exploitation, in the management of the young people (under 18), assessing capacity to give valid consent and accurately records the factors taken in to account when making the assessment.
* With support of a mentor, to work towards providing effective, efficient high-quality care to all patients within the speciality of sexual health
* Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients; gives specialist advice to clients/carers
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse, Adult
* Evidence of professional development
* Proven consolidating of registered nurse qualification with healthcare management experience.
* Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
* Post registration specialist course or qualification in sexual health, public health or sexual health advising.
* Teaching qualification (Mentor Preparation programme) or willingness to work towards
Other Requirements
* You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Experience & Knowledge
* Experience of sexual health nursing or another pertinent specialty.
* Post registration clinical experience
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.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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