Sexual Health Technician/ Health Care Assistant - Sexual Health

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

WORKING FOR OUR ORGANISATION

Our vision is to promote independence and health, to deliver high quality, to provide care within the heart of the patient’s community. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values & vision and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Respect – value and respect other people’s knowledge, experience and skills. Listen and act on feedback, be fair and kind. Promote independence.
Compassionate, high quality care – patients are respected and are equal partners in their care. Team goals are patient centred and improvements bottom up.
Innovation for excellence – empower and listen to staff, try new ideas and be brave. Research, upskill and champion digital technology. Set the gold standard.
Integrated partnership/teamwork – All staff work together and learn from each other. Strengthen team work via team events and buddying. Align IT systems and uniform.
Person centred care – Involve patients in service co design and make it easy for feedback to be given. Ensure safe staffing levels, reduce waiting lists and ensure GPs are involved in our service improvements.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Good understanding of Equality and Diversity
• Non judgemental , comfortable discussing sexual matters
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

The post of a Sexual Health Technician in Sexual Health is characterised by four principle role functions:

• Supporting Clinical Practice
• Independent clinical activity
• Supporting administration functions as required
• Participating in mandatory training and education, research, training and development

The balance between clinical practice and administration tasks will vary according to day to day priorities but will be negotiated overall with the charge nurse and service manager.