# Specialist Nurse – Sexual Health Intervention and Prevention (SHIP)

**Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Band 6 Specialist Nurse - Sexual Health Improvement (SHIP) to join our multidisciplinary team on a one-year fixed-term contract.

The successful applicant will hold a recognised contraception qualification (DFSRH or equivalent) and a Letter of Competence in Subdermal Implants (LoC SDI), with experience of implant insertion and removal. You will have a passion for sexual health nursing and supporting patients with vulnerabilities, safeguarding concerns and complex psychosocial needs.

**Main duties of the job**

- To contribute to the clinical leadership of the Specialist Health Improvement team within the Sexual Health and HIV services

- To provide nurse-delivered sexual health and contraceptive care in accordance with current service protocol and competency framework

- To support the senior nurses to ensure the service specification for intervention and prevention is implemented across the service

- To contribute to and provide robust procedures and processes for partner notification, contact tracing, results management within Sexual Health and HIV services

- To contribute to and provide robust procedures and processes for the provision of health promotion, risk management/reduction, behavioural interventions and focussed psychological support for patients attending Sexual Health and HIV Services

**Job responsibilities**

- Provide health promotion, risk management/reduction, behavioural interventions and focussed psychological support for identified patients attending Sexual Health and HIV Services

- Provide intermediate level, autonomous nursing care to patients with sexual health and contraceptive needs

- Utilise specialist knowledge and skills and undertake procedures and practices such as cryotherapy, microscopy, speculum examination, bimanual examination, testicular examination, proctoscopy, contraceptive implant insertion and removal, cervical cytology and specialist follow-up clinics

- Take referrals to support the safeguarding process from within the sexual health teams and external sources as required

- Participate in specialist nurse-delivered clinics as appropriate to the intervention and prevention needs of the service

**Benefits**

- A supportive and inclusive working environment with opportunities for professional development, leadership experience and involvement in innovative service improvement projects

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## Skills

### Required
- sexual health nursing
- contraception qualification
- Letter of Competence in Subdermal Implants
- communication skills
- team building and working skills

### Nice to have
- Degree in Nursing or Equivalent

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