Sexual Offence Examiner (Fne/Hcp)

Ready for a career that's truly different? Mountain Healthcare is one of the UK’s leading providers of forensic healthcare within the Health and Justice sector. Working in partnership with NHSE, police, and wider criminal justice agencies, we deliver high-quality care to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. We are proud to be guided by our core values of Being Kind and Doing the Right Thing.

We are seeking a Sexual Offence Examiner (Nurse/Midwife/HCP) to join our team. As permitted under the Sex Discrimination Act Section 7(2)b and 7(2)e, we can only accept female applicants. If you are looking for a role where your impact is immediate, meaningful and aligned with national forensic and safeguarding standards, this is the opportunity for you.

A Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) is a dedicated service co-commissioned by the Police and NHS Health and Justice Commissioners to improve the care offered to survivors of sexual assault and rape. Our service considers the needs of children, young people and adults.

As a Sexual Offence Examiner, you will provide holistic sexual assault examination services within our SARCs as part of a 24/7 rota, supporting patients with care that is safe, compassionate, trauma-informed and aligned with forensic, safeguarding and clinical standards.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing advice and triaging cases, considering patients’ forensic and therapeutic needs and referring to specialist services where required.
• Carrying out holistic assessments, including sexual health, mental health, safeguarding and remote advice where appropriate.
• Performing clinical assessments and physical examinations to identify any acute needs, including injury review or pregnancy prevention.
• Undertaking forensic examinations and collecting forensic samples for criminal investigations while maintaining forensic integrity and chain of evidence.
• Documenting assessments, advice, referrals and case activity accurately using Oasis and other relevant systems.
• Participating in strategy meetings with police, adult social care and partner agencies, providing specialist advice and guidance.
• Ensuring immediate safeguarding referrals and wider referrals are completed, followed up and monitored through to case closure.
• Maintaining high standards of room cleanliness, equipment checks, medicines management, infection control and forensic compliance.
• Supporting governance, quality improvement, audits, incident processes, accreditation requirements and service development.
• Providing mentorship, training and support to new starters, Crisis Workers, Administrators, Doctors and wider SARC colleagues.

Essential Skills:

• NMC or HCPC registration.
• Basic Life Support, with training provided where required.
• Ability to manage your own workload and support team priorities.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• A minimum of two years’ post-registration clinical experience in a patient-facing role.
• Experience of working with vulnerable people.
• Experience of working effectively and collaboratively with a wide range of partner agencies.
• Venepuncture skills.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate clearly and empathically with patients.
• Strong judgement, analysis, organisation, prioritisation, numeracy, literacy, IT and record-keeping skills.
• Willingness to undertake further training relevant to the service.

Desirable:

• Experience of dealing with survivors of sexual assault.
• Knowledge of all methods of contraception.
• Sound knowledge of confidentiality and legal issues relating to sexual health and safeguarding.