Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse in Bury

Rewards and Benefits

• £39,959 - £48,117 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Job Introduction

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse to join our dedicated team working at our Bury Sexual Health Service, Townside Primary Care Centre. In this rewarding role, you will provide accessible sexual health screening, advice, treatment, contraception, health promotion, and counselling within both clinic and outreach settings. You will continue to develop your skills, knowledge and experience across sexual health, contraception, and leadership, while supporting the delivery of high‑quality, patient‑centred care. The successful candidate will work flexibly across all aspects of Sexual Health, Contraception and HIV, demonstrating a progressive attitude, a commitment to continual improvement, and the ability to maintain personal and professional competence. You will be expected to supervise and mentor junior staff and nursing/medical students, and to take an active role in the daily leadership and management of the nursing team. Actively participates and leads on audit and quality initiatives. This is a part‑time role, 15 hours per week, between the hours of 9am‑5pm, including evenings and Saturdays to be covered.

Main Responsibilities

• To autonomously undertake clinical skills for both contraceptive and sexual health patients, including history taking, clinical examination, STI screening, microscopy, results interpretation, immunisations and venipuncture.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and provides follow up care for asymptomatic and symptomatic patients, and those with complex sexual health needs including GBMSM (gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men), within your scope or practice.
• Provide advice and opportunistic cytology screening as appropriate, according to policies.
• Provide comprehensive holistic assessment of patients’ social, emotional, and sexual health needs and initiate follow‑up and/or referral as appropriate.
• Provide treatment.
• Undertake partner notification and elevate to Health Advisor.
• To undertake triage of patients and refer them to appropriate service/care pathway.
• Takes an active role in the leadership and management of the nursing team.
• Participates and carries out annual appraisals for more junior staff.
• Actively participates and leads on audit and quality initiatives.
• Promotes and educates patients and external agencies/professionals with regards to sexual health and HIV promotion, offering PREP, PEP, appropriate vaccination schedules, to those who meet criteria.
• Discussing importance of condom usage and window periods in relation to sexual health screening.
• Within 12 months of commencement of post must have completed Loc subdermal implant training cytology.
• Within 2 years of commencement of post must have completed sexually transmitted infections and intermediate qualification.
• Takes on champion role e.g. infection prevention, safeguarding and/or extended role LOC IUD training.
• Revalidates FSRH and BASHH qualifications every five years.

Ideal Candidate

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration
• DFSRH Faculty Diploma in Contraception & STIF Foundation
• Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse, or experienced Band 5 in a sexual health setting
• Experience working within Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Teaching and mentorship experience
• Letters of Competency for Subdermal Implants
• Symptomatic screening (STIF Foundation)
• Ability to apply research evidence and theory to clinical practice
• Understanding of factors influencing intervention models and patient participation
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes

Desirable Skills

• Sexual Health Advising.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.