Job overview

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Senior Sexual Health Nurse to join our Integrated Sexual Health Service in East Sussex, full time and part time positions available.

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:

• Deliver nurse-led clinics and outreach sessions in community venues.
• Provide holistic, person-centred assessment, treatment, and education.
• Support partner notification, safeguarding, and health improvement initiatives.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff and students, helping build a supportive learning culture.
• 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.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver safe, effective and person-centred sexual health care
• 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.
• Must be available to work cross site between Hastings and Eastbourne sites.

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

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

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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