An opportunity has arisen at the Northern Contraception, Sexual Health & HIV Service to join our friendly team at the Hathersage Centre in Manchester. The post holders will become experienced nursing associates in sexual health and contraception.
The post holders will be able to or developed to undertake duties of seeing patients independently within an integrated sexual and reproductive health service. They will participate in clinical duties in line with their banding, experience, and competence.
The candidate will need to be qualified as a nursing associate for 6 months.
Responsibilities include:
1. Performing symptomatic and asymptomatic screening, venepuncture, and vaccination as a nursing associate within the integrated sexual health team, providing appropriate prescribed treatment and advice to those with an infection.
2. Providing sexual health advice to patients as appropriate, working with our health advisors.
3. Counseling patients requesting long-acting reversible contraception and supporting them to make informed choices regarding their sexual and reproductive health.
4. Undertaking all clinical duties in line with the role of a nursing associate within the service.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sophie Flaherty
Job title: Senior Health Advisor
Email address: sophie.flaherty@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 276 5207
Hayley Heapy, Senior ISH Nurse
0161 276 5214
hayley.heapy@mft.nhs.uk
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