Job summary
- Main area
- Sexual Health and Contraceptive Nurse
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (FTC (24 months))
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-24-W&C-T1651
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Sexual Health and Contraceptive Nurse, Band 6
Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
Sexual Health and Contraceptive Nurse, Band 6 (22.5 hours a week)
Are you a driven and motivated Registered Band 6 sexual health Nurse who is passionate about providing safe, effective, personalised care to women and families? If you have a passion for delivery of high-quality service, then we want to hear from you.
A very exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT), as a sexual health nurse in maternity services following the successful pilot of Gloucestershire’s ‘preventing unplanned pregnancy pilot’. The post is for an initial period of two years.
You will be working with the lead Maternity contraceptive specialist midwife to provide an effective and evidenced based service through assessing, planning and implementing contraceptive provision for patients with complex social needs.
Main duties of the job
You will Participate and engage in the development of Gloucestershire’s Maternity contraceptive service.
Under the direction of the lead midwife, you will contribute to service development by using quality improvement methodology and act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements will use motivational interviewing techniques to access, plan and offer safe contraceptive methods. This will include patients with diverse or complex presentations. You will be communicating with the multi-disciplinary team to aid effective patient care; this will include daily presence in the clinical area and attending team meetings.
You will be involved in teaching and presenting at local forums.
You will be expected to work county-wide and run satellite clinics.
Working for our organisation
As our most valuable asset, we understand that happy, fulfilled staff will offer their best, and we aim to achieve this by providing a supportive approach.
In order to facilitate the transition into your new role you will be supported by the specialist contraceptive lead midwife and will be given time to consolidate and learn new skills and competencies.
We have several shared decision-making councils, giving all staff a voice within the department.
We recognise that members of our team may experience difficult situations. To support them, we have, alongside our lead midwives and senior midwifery team, an excellent PMA team. The PMAs are able to give 1:1 RCS and are also providing forums for midwives and maternity care assistants to discuss issues such as midwifery led care and creating a fair and just culture. We also have a team of TRiM practitioners who are able to support all staff who have been involved in a situation which may have been traumatic for them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Contribute to providing an effective and evidenced based service.
- Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to deliver evidence-based service.
- To use motivational interviewing techniques to assess, and plan and offer a range of safe contraceptive options; deliver, evaluate and amend the plan. This will include patients with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies. Working as an autonomous practitioner with access to guidance from specialist sexual health services when necessary.
- To communicate with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to aid effective woman-centred care, this will include taking an active role in team meetings.
- You will be visible and attend the clinical areas daily to mentor and support staff in the accessing and administration of contraception.
- You will be flexible and work at any site in the county of Gloucestershire as required including work in the community.
- Provide support for audit, including data collection and data utilisation, and dissemination of findings.
- Contribute to service development using quality improvement methodology.
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous records.
- To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and NMC Rules and Standards.
- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times
- Demonstrate and promote a woman and family centred style of clinical practice.
- To support lead contraceptive midwife in providing training and education to midwifery staff
- Maintain and contribute to the development of standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with lead contraceptive midwife.
- Act as a role model by applying best practice in motivating staff to drive improvements
- To be responsible for the organisation of your own work and ensure effective time management.
- Maintain regular use of emails to keep abreast of information disseminated in the Trust
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- United Kingdom recognised Degree in Adult Nursing
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
- DFSRH or equivalent contraception and sexual health qualification
- Current FSRH LOC qualification
- Car driver-able to independently travel to work countywide
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in contraception and sexual health service
- Experience of work with vulnerable groups
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to prioritise own workload
- Personally resilient and able to manage complexity and work in an ambiguous or changing environment
- Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills
- Venepuncture
- Demonstrates ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
- Acts as a role model and are able to lead by example to ensure the Trust’s values and behaviours are reinforced throughout their area of practice.
- Able to supervise non-registered and less experienced staff to ensure effective service and care delivery.
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety
- Demonstrates ability to question and challenge midwifery /Nursing practice in a constructive way so that standards of care are continually evaluated and improved.
- Tenacity to pursue goals energetically and succeed despite resistance
- Strong, professional leadership qualities, assertive and self-confident individual
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate all staff within sphere of responsibility
- Self-motivated and able to work under own initiative and prioritise workload
Desirable criteria
- Able to contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies/protocols/guidelines relevant to area of practice.
- Demonstrates ability to keep up to date with professional issues that influence Contraceptive practice, education and research.
Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic and self-aware
- Creative and Flexible
- Resilient under pressure
- Team focused
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicki Pirie
- Job title
- Lead Midwife in Contraception
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 2333
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