Job Introduction
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse to join our bank team in Chester and Cheshire West, supporting a dynamic and fast-paced sexual health service.
This is an exciting opportunity to work as an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across a wide range of sexual health and contraception services.
Essential Clinical Requirement
To be considered for this role, you must hold the following competencies:
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✅ Subdermal Implant Fitter & Remover (LOC SDI-IR)
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✅ IUD/IUS Fitter & Remover competency
These are non-negotiable requirements and must be evidenced with relevant certification.
What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll play a key role in delivering safe, effective, and responsive sexual health services, including:
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Providing nurse-led clinics for sexual health, contraception, and STI management
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Delivering and managing long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) including implants and IUD/IUS
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Supporting patients with screening, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing care
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Offering health promotion, education, and counselling to improve patient outcomes
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Managing your own caseload autonomously while contributing to team-based care
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Supporting the day-to-day running of clinics and ensuring smooth service delivery
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Providing clinical leadership and guidance to junior colleagues
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Registered General Nurse (RGN) with valid NMC registration
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FSRH Diploma (or equivalent) in contraception
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STIF Foundation (Intermediate desirable)
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Proven experience in sexual health services (Band 6 or experienced Band 5)
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Competence in implant and IUD/IUS fitting & removal (essential)
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Experience working with Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
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Strong communication skills and ability to work autonomously
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Valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes*
- travel across Coventry & Warwickshire is required.
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Non-Medical Prescriber qualification
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Experience in HIV care, STI symptomatic screening, or sexual health advising
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Teaching or mentorship experience
Why join HCRG Care Group?
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Work in a high-impact clinical area supporting community health
- ️ Flexible bank shifts to suit your lifestyle
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Join a supportive multidisciplinary team
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Opportunities to further develop your specialist sexual health skills
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❤️ Be part of an organisation drivenby values:
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Care – putting patients first
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Think – continuously improving
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Do – delivering high-quality outcomes
Package description
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£23.89 per hour
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Self-booking and access to all bank shifts! Staff are given access to all Bank shifts within their Business Unit and can self-book providing they meet the shift requirements.
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Request a Duty – Staff can make shifts or Day Off requests prior to the creation of a roster up to six weeks in advance. This helps promote a better work life balance and allows for personal commitments to be met
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HCRG Care Group is pleased to offer access to Wagestream - which lets you track your pay throughout the month and stream your earned wages into your bank account if you need them. No more high-interest loans or overdraft fees - simply get paid as you go.
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Working in an environment focused on the highest clinical and quality standards
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Opportunities to work in different areas and various different services to gain new knowledge and experience
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Access to our Strive for Better networks, a national support and professional network made up of NHS professionals like you, giving you the chance to constantly develop industry-leading care and quality
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Access to our free well-being service available 24/7/365 online and by telephone including; counsellors, post trauma incident support, legal, debt and practical life management helpline, guided self-help, telephonic career coaching and monthly well-being newsletters
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Free statutory and mandatory training, as well as access to a range of courses and e-learning to develop further skills and in-house opportunities continuing your professional development
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Innovative forward-thinking culture with the opportunity to put forward your ideas to contribute to the way we work. You will be encouraged to apply for national funding to drive your initiatives locally to benefit our patients and service users
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Rewarding and supportive teams, you will be recognised and have opportunities to recognise others by nominating for local and national awards annually and taking part in our new virtual “Ask our Executives” event, where you can submit questions to the board and hear updates regularly on company strategy and objectives
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The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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