Health Adviser - Band 5

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The role is centred upon working within Gloucestershire’s Integrated Sexual Health (ISH) service. ISH is a hub and spoke model. To provide confidential and consistent contraception and sexual health services within nurse led clinics and alongside medical colleagues.

Working as an Independent Practitioner, the role requires professional leadership – acting as a role model to junior staff and treating patients within Sexual Health.

To assess individual patient needs without supervision.

To plan, implement, and evaluate relevant programmes of care for individual patients within the clinic guidelines.

With appropriate training, function as an independent practitioner providing sexual and reproductive health care to clients based in an allocated locality. The post holder will operate in satellite clinics providing Level 1 & 2 sexual and reproductive health care services in addition to the level 3 ‘Hub’

To be responsible for managing individual patient consultations within a legal and ethical framework, in line with clinical governance and professional accountability.

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking detailed sexual and social histories to assess, plan/implement and evaluate an evidenced based programme of care. Be responsible for considering lifestyle, race, gender and cultural background, in addition to supporting, counselling, or referring clients for medical advice as appropriate. To ensure involvement, as appropriate with the patient, family, carers and significant others.

Please see job description / person specification for further information.

The Trust aims to recruit and retain the best possible staff who, through the application of their skills, qualification and experience, will make a positive contribution to our business of providing quality health care services. It is the Trust’s view that the costs associated with moving house in order to take up a post with us should not restrict our ability to recruit the excellent people we need; therefore, we support staff to relocate with our relocation policy.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.