Health Advisor
Band 5
- sexual health
- Band 5
- Permanent
-
- Full time
- Flexible working
- 319-7507463LH-HAS
- One to One Centres
- Blyth
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per annum
- Yearly
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 5 Sexual Health Advisor within the Sexual Health Team. This post delivers high quality clinical care and expert Public Health interventions, in line with local and national policy to improve Sexual Health.
The successful candidate will be supported in obtaining the knowledge, skills and competencies required in Sexual Health Advising to deliver excellent patient care.
The post holder must be registered with the NMC as a Registered General Nurse
The post holder will provide clinical and Public Health interventions, treatment of STI's, partner notification and outreach activity to improve community and individual health and well-being.
A high level of autonomous clinical practice is expected from the post holder demonstrating knowledge and skills related to Public Health practice, working with hard to reach and marginalized communities. Team working is expected with a positive approach to multi-discipline/ inter-agency working.
This post includes extended clinical clerical functions; the post holder should be interested in supporting the care and management of patients using computer-based technology and telephony. Excellent customer care is expected and adherence to anti-discriminatory practice is a requisite for working into this area.
The successful candidate will be supported with CPD and regular individual and group Clinical Supervision. Post subject to DBS clearance.
Please note previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will support the process of partner notification, applying public health principles in order to reduce transmission of STIs/HIV to improve sexual health in the community.
- To work within clinical governance and performance management frameworks
- To educate and inform the public and professionals in sexual health issues
- The post-holder will contribute to service modernisation and development; achieving national and local performance targets within quality standards.
- The post-holder will utilise an electronic patient record
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- With support of a mentor, to work towards assessing and meeting the needs of service users across the whole range of integrated service for sexual health services to deliver service within timed sessions, maintaining performance and productivity at an acceptable level.
- With support of a mentor, you will use the Fraser guidelines and other pertinent assessment tools for Child Sexual Exploitation, in the management of the young people (under 18), assessing capacity to give valid consent and accurately records the factors taken in to account when making the assessment.
- With support of a mentor, to work towards providing effective, efficient high-quality care to all patients within the speciality of sexual health
- Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates clinical care of patients/clients; gives specialist advice to clients/carers
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, Adult
- Evidence of professional development
- Proven consolidating of registered nurse qualification with healthcare management experience.
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Desirable criteria
- Post registration specialist course or qualification in sexual health, public health or sexual health advising.
- Teaching qualification (Mentor Preparation programme) or willingness to work towards
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- You may also need to travel between Trust premises as required for the performance of your duties. You may also be expected to work at any of the trust sites. The Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of sexual health nursing or another pertinent specialty.
Desirable criteria
- Post registration clinical experience
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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
- Sue Ingram
- Job title
- Lead Health Advisor
- Email address
- Susan.Ingram@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number
- 01670500525
- Additional information
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Julie Taylor
0344 728 0554 option 2
Julie.Taylor2@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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