Job overview
We are seeking a motivated Sexual Health Advisor to join the Oxfordshire Sexual Health Service. This specialist role provides high-quality care, advice, and interventions within an integrated sexual and reproductive health service.
The postholder will manage partner notification, safeguarding assessments, and complex casework for individuals with STIs, infection risk, and complex psychosocial needs, ensuring appropriate follow-up and escalation. A key part of the role involves supporting vulnerable patients experiencing trauma, mental health difficulties, domestic abuse, sexual exploitation, and other safeguarding concerns, using a trauma-informed, person-centred approach.
The role requires close working with multidisciplinary teams and external agencies to support effective safeguarding and coordinated care. The postholder will also contribute to public health outcomes through infection prevention, STI transmission reduction, and health promotion.
This is a varied role requiring strong communication skills, clinical judgement, and the ability to manage a complex caseload in a fast-paced environment, working independently and within a team.
We are ideally seeking an experienced Health Advisor. However, a Band – developmental post may be offered where candidates demonstrate appropriate competencies and potential to progress.
Main duties of the job
The Sexual Health Advisor will provide specialist support within an integrated sexual health service, focusing on partner notification, safeguarding, and management of complex sexual health cases.
Key responsibilities include leading contact tracing for sexually transmitted infections to reduce onward transmission, managing urgent patient recalls, and supporting clinical follow-up of untreated or high-risk cases. The postholder will play a key role in identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns, working with children and adults at risk, and contributing to multi-agency safeguarding processes.
The role involves working with individuals with complex needs, including trauma, mental health difficulties, substance misuse, and experiences of exploitation or abuse, using a trauma-informed approach. The Sexual Health Advisor will also work closely with multidisciplinary and external partner agencies to ensure coordinated, safe, and effective care.
In addition, the postholder will contribute to health promotion, infection prevention, and public health initiatives aimed at reducing STI transmission and improving sexual health outcomes.
The role requires accurate documentation, adherence to clinical governance standards, and ongoing professional development, along with the ability to work autonomously within a complex and fast-paced clinical environment.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .
In NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the
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If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.