About this role
Job summary
To provide, in conjunction with consultant colleagues, a comprehensive Sexual Health service across Northumberland and North Tyneside localities.
Main duties of the job
To deliver Genitourinary Medicine, HIV outpatient and Contraception services in keeping with competencies and experience.
To work with professional colleagues and local managers to ensure the efficient running of the Sexual Health Service.
To share, with other practitioners, the medical contribution to Service management and leadership.
To participate in the management of change to ensure a responsive and flexible service and to enable all staff to adapt and contribute fully.
To provide advice to GPs and other medical and non-medical staff, internally and externally.
To support specialist nurses in the delivery of the nurse-led, service model.
To prescribe and issue prescription-only medicines and support nursing staff with the use and development of Patient Group Directions.
To contribute to appropriate health promotion and education within the clinic.
To ensure good clinical governance and participate in local audit and quality improvement activity.
To contribute to teaching and education in order to improve access to sexual health services.
To actively participation in annual appraisal and CPD activities and complete personal CPD programme in accordance with Royal College guidance.
About us
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description Job responsibilities
Registered Medical Practitioner with GMC.
Evidence of post-graduate education, knowledge and clinical skills in the sexual health field.
Assist the GUM Consultants in positive STI related management.
Provide consultations within contraceptive/sexual health clinics including:
o Full screening and management of STIs (sexually transmitted infections)
o Management of new and review patients using PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis)
o Vaccination programmes such as Hepatitis B and HPV (Human Papilloma Virus)
o Issuing contraception (first issue, repeat or change of contraception) after taking history, appropriate measurements and requesting appropriate investigations.
o Following training:
Insertion and removal of intrauterine devices including using local anaesthetic.
Management of IUD (intrauterine device) problems I difficult insertions and removals.
Insertion and removal of subdermal contraceptive implants.
Performing cervical smears.
o Referral of patients within and without the Sexual Health Service for pregnancy management.
o Offering sexual health advice (including telephone advice).
o Offering sexual health advice (including telephone advice) to staff working within Northumberland and North Tyneside.
o Involvement in the management of new and review patients living with HIV.
Be aware of, and adhere to, the safeguarding guidelines and procedures of the Trust and the Safeguarding Team.
Engage in the further development of the DFSRH and LARC (Long-acting reversible contraception) training within Northumbria Healthcare Sexual Health Service as appropriate.
Partake in clinical governance and audit.Commitment to the provision of high-quality services through evidence-based practice.Good communication and interpersonal skills.Good organisational and time management skills.
IT skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Medical Practitioner with GMC
Desirable
Formal qualifications in Genitourinary Medicine Faculty Registered Trainer Menopause Care experience Vasectomy SSM or an equivalent vasectomy qualification/willingness to undertake vasectomy training Membership or Diploma of the Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Healthcare LoC IUT LoC SDI-IR Attended a STIF course or equivalent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Blyth Health Centre
Thoroton St
Blyth
NE24 1DX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)