Sexual Health Specialist Nurse/Practitioner

Clinical Practice

Be a defined point of contact for patients/carers for defined episodes/pathways of care and provide clinical care, specialist nursing advice and psychosocial support. Work collaboratively and in partnership with other health care professionals, offering advice to colleagues. Assess health and psychosocial needs of individual patients, and provide care to meet these needs, through a process of shared decision making. Accept referrals to agreed criteria, and work inpartnership with other professionals to deliver co-ordinated programmes of care effectively and referring patients to other practitioners as required. Deliver expert nursing care to patients in agreed practice settings, working as part of nursing/multidisciplinary teams. Communicate with patients in ways that empower them to make informed choices about their health and health care. Act as advocate for individual patients and the client group. Provide appropriate education to patients and their families to promote health and encourage self-care. Use communication skills to impart information to patients and carers,and provide them with advice and emotional support in hospital/at home as appropriate. Maintain adequate patient documentation to NMC requirements for all patients seen and advice given in any practice setting and contribute to clinical activity/data collection as required.

Leadership

Nurse

Specialist will be able to

Be involved in developing standards of care, practice guidelines and where appropriate Care Pathways for the patient/client group. Contribute to the development and delivery of nurse-led initiatives for the benefit of the identified client group, in conjunction with medical and nursing/AHP colleagues. Demonstrate and share clinical practice developments to provide evidence-based care, and contribute to service improvement in accordance with local policy initiatives. Contribute appropriately to clinical governance activities that relate to own area of practice and patient/client group. Support clinical and management teams in the delivery of Trust and Directorate objectives. Please see the attached Job Description for more information.