NHS
B6 Senior Sexual Health Practitioner- development considered
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Job Description
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- Registered Nurse or Midwife Qualification holding current registration
- Recent evidence of providing patient centred care. Safeguarding awareness
- Experience of mentorship and clinical supervision
- Educated to Degree level or experience in sexual health services
- Experience with medicine management
- Ability to travel countywide
- FSRH or BASHH qualifications
- LARC fitter
- Good computer skills
- Motivated, enthusiastic, non discriminatory demeanor
- Calm, confident with a sense of humour
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
- Registered Nurse or Midwife Qualification holding current registration
- Recent evidence of providing patient centred care. Safeguarding awareness
- Experience of mentorship and clinical supervision
- Educated to Degree level or experience in sexual health services
- Experience with medicine management
- Ability to travel countywide
- FSRH or BASHH qualifications
- LARC fitter
- Good computer skills
- Motivated, enthusiastic, non discriminatory demeanor
- Calm, confident with a sense of humour
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
Job summary
Greater Lincolnshire Integrated Sexual Health Services (G-LiSH) have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced clinician to join our North and North east Lincolnshire Countywide service as a senior NMC registered practitioner.
This role is mainly based at The Ironstone Centre in Scunthorpe but there will be an expectation to travel and cover clinics when needed including covering the outreach clinics in rural locations. Ability to travel is essential. Lincolnshire Community Health Services support travel costs from the successful candidates base.
G-LiSH provides services to a range of patients requiring sexual health and contraceptive needs.
You will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency professional team. Offering STI testing and contraceptive provision to clients of all ages and from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have achieved a portfolio of competences to provide autonomous care within G-LiSH.
FSRH Letter of Competence SDI and BASHH qualifications are desirable but not essential
You will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary/multi agency professional team. Offering STI testing and contraceptive provision to clients of all ages and from a diverse range of communities and backgrounds.
To qualify for Band 6 you must be able to demonstrate recognised qualification and recent experience in contraception and sexual health/GUM however we will consider a candidate that does not have one and requires further training. Candidates with no relevant qualifications will be offered a development role.
About us
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Details
Date posted
06 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
818-CYP326-QIA602
Job locations
The Ironstone Centre
West Street
Scunthorpe
DN15 6HX
Job description
Job responsibilities
Support B5 nurses, medical and nursing students, trainee GP's.
Provide clinical supervision, 1:1's, appraisals, Link nurse role.
Contribute to teaching sessions and provide health promotion activity.
Take part in audit and incident investigations.
Qualified practitioners will provide telephone and face to face contact, physical examinations, treatments, LARC, microscopy, cryotherapy, results management, contact tracing, referral management, triage services.
Supporting patients through their journey using sexual health services.
Job responsibilities
Support B5 nurses, medical and nursing students, trainee GP's.
Provide clinical supervision, 1:1's, appraisals, Link nurse role.
Contribute to teaching sessions and provide health promotion activity.
Take part in audit and incident investigations.
Qualified practitioners will provide telephone and face to face contact, physical examinations, treatments, LARC, microscopy, cryotherapy, results management, contact tracing, referral management, triage services.
Supporting patients through their journey using sexual health services.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
Desirable
Skills/competencies
Essential
Essential
Essential
Desirable
Skills/competencies
Essential
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust
Address
The Ironstone Centre
West Street
Scunthorpe
DN15 6HX
Employer's website
https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Community Health Service NHS Trust
Address
The Ironstone Centre
West Street
Scunthorpe
DN15 6HX
Employer's website
https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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