Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse

The Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse plays a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred sexual health services within an integrated clinical setting. The post-holder provides expert assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and health promotion to individuals presenting with a range of sexual and reproductive health needs. Working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team, the nurse undertakes complex consultations, manages sexually transmitted infections, delivers contraception services, and supports patients with safeguarding, psychosocial concerns, and wellbeing needs.
This role requires advanced clinical decision-making, competency in specialist procedures, and the ability to manage a varied caseload while maintaining exceptional standards of care. The nurse will contribute to service development, quality improvement initiatives, and the training and supervision of junior staff and students. Strong communication skills, resilience, and a non-judgemental approach are essential in supporting diverse patient groups and promoting inclusive, confidential care.
The Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse champions public health principles, engages in outreach and health-promotion activities, and ensures care aligns with national guidelines and local pathways. The post-holder plays a vital part in improving sexual health outcomes and enhancing patient experience across the service., The Band 6 Sexual Health Nurse provides high-quality, patient-centred sexual and reproductive healthcare across clinic and outreach settings. Key duties include autonomously assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for patients with a range of sexual health, contraceptive and HIV-related needs. The role involves taking comprehensive sexual and contraceptive histories, supplying and administering contraception under PGDs, fitting and removing implants and IUDs (where trained), and conducting investigations, examinations and treatment for STIs. The post-holder undertakes cervical screening, venepuncture, HIV testing, partner notification, and health advising, while supporting self-management and onward referral.
The nurse contributes to service development, quality improvement and clinical practice enhancement. They triage urgent enquiries, manage telephone advice, and support smooth clinic flow within a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include supervising junior staff, participating in induction, supporting students, maintaining accurate records and ensuring adherence to safeguarding, infection control, equality and governance standards. The role also requires delivering health promotion, working in outreach venues, and providing sensitive support around pregnancy, termination and positive results, ensuring compassionate, safe and evidence-based care., + Provide autonomous assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for sexual, reproductive and HIV-related needs across clinic and outreach settings.
+ Take comprehensive sexual and contraceptive histories, supply and administer contraception under PGDs, and perform implant/IUD fitting and removal where trained.
+ Assess, investigate and manage STIs, including examination, testing, treatment, partner notification and compliance checks.
+ Undertake cervical screening, venepuncture, HIV testing and discussion, and provide sensitive support around positive results, pregnancy and termination.
+ Deliver health promotion, risk-reduction advice and community outreach screening and contraception services.
+ Triage urgent and non-urgent clinical queries, manage telephone advice, and ensure efficient patient flow.
+ Work within an MDT, liaising with medical staff, matron, team leaders and external agencies.
+ Supervise junior staff, HCAs and students; support induction, teaching and role modelling professional standards.
+ Maintain accurate documentation and comply with policies covering safeguarding, infection control, mental capacity, chaperoning and equality.
+ Support service development, contribute to audits, research and quality improvement, and promote evidence-based practice.
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The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation providing acute, community and intermediate healthcare across the Royal Bolton Hospital and more than 20 health centres, ensuring seamless, patient-centred services for the local population. The Trust is driven by the values of Vision, Openness, Integrity, Compassion and Excellence, which guide how staff work with patients, families and each other, fostering a culture where colleagues feel valued, respected and proud.
Bolton FT is a supportive and forward-thinking employer that encourages professional growth, offering development opportunities such as internal training, CPD, shadowing and access to external seminars. Staff work collaboratively across disciplines, supported by strong leadership and a commitment to continuous improvement.
The Trust delivers high-quality care across integrated services, working closely with primary care and local authority partners. It is recognised as a centre of excellence in maternity, neonatal and children's services and is rated Good by the CQC, reflecting strong patient experience and safety standards. Bolton FT places patients at the heart of everything it does and promotes a positive, inclusive, and compassionate working environment.